Reverend James Collins is Rector at St Paul's, Burwood, in Sydney commencing in February 2011 and has a PhD in Sociology. He was ordained in 1987 and worked in Tasmania from 2001 to 2011 where he was Rector of the Parish of St Mary's, Moonah, and was an Enabler in the Parishes of New Norfolk, Break O'Day, Channel/Cygnet, Hamilton and Brighton.
List of figures
Foreword Brian V. Street
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: texts, power and identity
2. The literacy thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development and self
3. Situated approaches to the literacy debate
4. Literacies and power in modern nation states: Euro-American lessons
5. Literacies and identity formation: American cases
6. Literacy, power and identity: colonial legacies and indigenous transformations
7. Conclusion: literacy lessons - beginnings, ends and implications
Notes
References
Index.
