Mary Hamilton

Literacy and the Politics of Representation (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Literacy and the Politics of Representation aims to uncover the constructed nature of public understandings of literacy by examining detailed examples of how literacy is represented in a range of public contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136263798
• Artikelnr.: 38243619

Autorenporträt

Mary Hamilton is Professor of Adult Learning and Literacy, co-director of the Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning and Associate Director of the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University, UK.

She has written extensively on policy, practice and everyday learning in adult literacy and is co-author of a number of books including Local Literacies (reissued 2012, Routledge); Powerful Literacies (with Jim Crowther and Lynn Tett) and Changing Faces of Adult Literacy, Language and Numeracy: A Critical History (with Yvonne Hillier).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I: Constructing Imaginaries Using Different Semiotic
Resources 2. Literacy by Numbers 3. Visualising Literacy 4. The Powers of
Voice Part II Domains of Imagination 5. Governing Literacy 6. Literacy in
the News 7. Speaking from Experience 8. Conclusion