Alfabetización, lectura y sociedad. Una mirada desde la historia

Abstract

Alphabetization is related to all spheres of human activity, it is fundamental for the development of individuals and their communities. The practice of lecture explains the place that the library has in society. The historical study of lecture in particular, and of alphabetization in general, besides trying to establish how did practices and ideology occurred, and the ideology in which they found fundament, facilitate the identification of its effect in society along the universal history. Here, is described the relation between the ability of persons for reading, and the development of their communities. The lector will introduce himself along the author, in the search of the social implications of lecture and its manifestations.