James Collins

Literacy and Literacies (eBook, PDF)

Texts, Power, and Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories, and exploring the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official versus popular literacies. Collins and Blot offer in-depth critical discussion of particular cases and discuss the role of literacies in the formation of class, gender, and ethnic identity. Through their analysis of two domains - those of literacies and power, and of literacies and subjectivity - they challenge received assumptions about literacy, intellectual development and social progress and argue that neither 'universalist' nor 'particularist' accounts offer satisfactory approaches to the phenomenon. This is a sustained exploration of the domain of power in relation to literacy. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in anthropology, linguistics, literacy studies and history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511059605
• Artikelnr.: 38187386

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.