Uta Papen

Adult Literacy as Social Practice

More Than Skills

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this unique book the author shows that teaching staff have much to gain from understanding the role of literacy in learners' lives, focusing on the practicalities of how teachers and students can work from a social practice perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780415353779
• ISBN-10: 0415353777
• Artikelnr.: 22599641

Autorenporträt

Uta Papen is Lecturer in Literacy Studies in the Dept of Linguistics at Lancaster University. She has published previously with Peter Lang

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Field of Adult Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL - What Is It?:
Definitions, discourses and metaphors 2. A New Way of Looking at Reading,
Writing and Numeracy: Literacy and numeracy as social and situated practice
3. Reading, Writing and Numeracy in Context: Dominant and vernacular
practices 4. The History and Current Context of Adult Literacy and Numeracy
Education in the UK 5. Implications of the Social View of Literacy and
Numeracy for the Policy and Practice of Adult Basic Education