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  1. Nov 2017
    1. o read and write in page-bound, official, standard forms of the national lan-guage. Literacy. pedagogy, in other words, has been a carefully restricted project -restricted to formalized, monolingual, monocultural, and rule-governed forms of language.

      People are taught primarily, and in some cases only, the language and culture of the nation or country they reside in, as this is where they are expected and hoped to spend most of their time and productivity. Thus, they are generally unprepared to communicate or socialize with people from other societies and cultures, hindering socialization and the spreading of ideas between groups.