Brian V. Street

Social Literacies (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective. It represents part of the current trend towards a broader consideration of literacy as social practices, and as its title suggests, it focuses on the social nature of reading and writing and the multiple character of literacy practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317894407
• Artikelnr.: 41067712

Autorenporträt

Brian V. Street

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: Literacy, Politics and Social Change
Introduction
1 Putting Literacies on the Political Agenda
2 Literacy and Social Change: The Significance of Social Context in the
Development of Literacy Programmes
Section 2: The Ethnography of Literacy
Introduction
3. The Uses of Literacy and Anthropology in Iran
4. Orality and Literacy as Ideological Constructions: Some Problems in
Cross-cultural Studies
Section 3. Literacy in Education
Introduction
5. The Schooling of Literacy
6. The Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Pedagogy
Section 4: Towards a Critical Framework
Introduction
7. A critical Look at Walter Ong and the `Great Divide'
8. Literacy Practices and Literacy Myths
Index