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标题：Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Cultural Literacy
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作者：Rutten, Kris ; Soetaert, Ronald
期刊名称：CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
印刷版ISSN：1481-4374
电子版ISSN：1556-2905
出版年度：2013
卷号：15
期号：3
页码：5
出版社：Purdue University
摘要：In their article "Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Cultural Literacy" Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert start from concerns in contemporary educational debates about a growing lack of civic literacy. These complaints are raised both in the public sphere, in institutions of pedagogy, and in scholarship about the form, content, and function of civic literacy and civic education. Although there is an ongoing debate about the alleged decrease of political interest and the current state of civic literacy, it is clear that civic education has become an important focus of different governmental initiatives. Rutten and Soetaert aim to move away from a straightforward definition of citizenship in general and civic literacy in particular by developing a rhetorical framework for a broader and contextualized understanding of civic and cultural literacies by exploring what this implies for a contemporary humanist and liberal education.