TY - JOUR AU - AB - A variety of claims has been made about the relationship between literacy and intellectual development. Many developmental psychologists hold that skills in reading and writing lead inevitably to major transformations in cognitive capacities. Drawing from their observations of unschooled but literate adults, Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole have questioned some of the generalizations made about the consequences of literacy. Their research among the Vai of Liberia, a people who have invented a syllabic writing system to represent their own language,provides a unique opportunity to investigate the effects of becoming literate separtely from the effects of attending school. TI - Literacy without Schooling: Testing for Intellectual Effects JF - Harvard Educational Review DO - 10.17763/haer.48.4.f44403u05l72x375 DA - 1978-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/crossref/literacy-without-schooling-testing-for-intellectual-effects-HcoUV320zJ SP - 448 EP - 461 VL - 48 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -