Stephen Black

Literacy in the Lives of Working-Class Adults in Australia (eBook, ePUB)

Dominant versus Local Voices

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Adopting a 'social practice' approach to literacy research based on ethnographic methods, this book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults in Australia. It explores how groups of working-class adults can manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives by drawing on social networks of support. It is based on research conducted by the author over a forty-year career in adult literacy education, featuring the voices of varied adult groups, including: prisoners, the long-term unemployed, local council workers, manufacturing workers, adult literacy students, marginalised young people, vocational students, and patients living with a chronic illness (type 2 diabetes).

Each chapter explains how dominant society views these adult groups in relation to literacy, and provides a qualitative examination at the local level of how members of these groups manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350378131
• Artikelnr.: 69046321

Autorenporträt

Stephen Black is a Research Fellow in the School of Education, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Abbreviations 1. Literacy, Politics and Working-Class
Adults 2. Prisoners and Literacy 3. Long-Term Unemployed People and
Literacy 4. Local Council Workers and Literacy 5. Production Workers and
Literacy 6. Adult Literacy Students and Literacy 7. Marginalised Young
People and Literacy 8. Vocational Education and Training Students and
Literacy 9. Diabetes Patients and Literacy 10. Countering Deficit
References Index