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Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1981
Notes recipients of the second International Reading Association Literacy Awards (with the first prize going to the Ethiopian Coordinating Committee for the National Literacy Campaign) and presents the comments about the value of literacy work made at the ceremony by UNESCO Director-General Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow. (MKM)
Descriptors: Adults, Awards, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMacGinitie, Walter H. – Journal of Reading, 1983
Points out the possible problems that can arise when people are "certain" about something. Suggests that readers need the power of uncertainty, which will allow them to consider new hypotheses, change conceptions, and use knowledge as a framework for constructing meaning, not merely to confirm ideas they already have. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
