David Barton / Karin Tusting (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

Beyond Communities of Practice

Language, Power and Social Context

Herausgeber: Barton, David; Tusting, Karin

Beschreibung

This book consists of a set of studies exploring the concept of 'communities of practice'.

Autor

David Barton is Professor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. His main work has been concerned with carrying out detailed studies of literacy practices in different domains of life and with rethinking the nature of literacy in contemporary society.
Karin Tusting is a Research Associate at the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University. She is currently working on the Adult Learners' Lives project, an ethnography study of the relationship between learning and other aspects of people's lives, working with adult literacy, numeracy, and ESOL learners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780521544924
• ISBN-10: 0521544920
• Artikelnr.: 21152829