"Harvey Graff has been exploring and mapping the labyrinths of literacy since the early 1970s.  In a steady stream of books, and essays, Graff has been busily 'deconstrucing' our conventional conceptions of literacy as a precondition to meaningful reconstruction. In chapters that vary in terms of specific focus, depth and nature of criticism, and explicitness of theoretical and policy orientations, Graff offers his readers a series of compass readings that have led him into--but not necessarily out of--the labyrinth of literacy." --Journal of Educational Administration and History.