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9780631227434

The Making of Literate Societies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631227434

  • ISBN10:

    0631227431

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-08-22
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

This volume provides a systematic analysis of the role of literacy in social development, and advances a set of directions that governments and other agencies should take in designing their literacy programmes.

Author Biography

David R. Olson is University Professor and Professor of Applied Cognitive Science at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Nancy Torrance is Senior Research Officer at the International Centre for Educational Change at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance edited the Blackwell Handbook of Education and Human Development (Blackwell Publishers, 1995).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Preface x
Part I: On Being a Literate Society: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives on Literacy 1(120)
Conceptualizing Literacy as a Personal Skill and as a Social Practice
3(16)
David R. Olson
Nancy Torrance
The Roles of Literacy Practices in the Activities and Institutions of Developed and Developing Countries
19(35)
Armin Triebel
Societal Literacy: Writing Culture and Development
54(14)
Georg Elwert
Literacy in Ancient Greece: Functional Literacy, Oral Education, and the Development of a Literate Environment
68(14)
Rosalind Thomas
Literacy in Germany
82(19)
Utz Maas
Literacy in Japan: Kanji, Kana, Romaji, and Bits
101(20)
Florian Coulmas
Part II: On Becoming a Literate Society: Literacy in Developing Societies 121(196)
African Case Studies
123(1)
Language, Literacy, the Production and Reproduction of Knowledge, and the Challenge of African Development
123(19)
Kwesi K. Prah
Literacy and Literature in Indigenous Languages in Benin and Burkina-Faso
142(11)
Joseph Akoha
Constructive Interdependence: The Response of a Senegalese Community to the Question of Why Become Literate
153(25)
Sonja Fagerberg-Diallo
Literacy for Gonja and Birifor Children in Northern Ghana
178(23)
Esther Goody
JoAnne Bennett
Central and South American Case Studies
201(1)
Literacy and Intercultural Bilingual Education in the Andes
201(24)
Luis Enrique Lopez
The Uses of Orality and Literacy in Rural Mexico: Tales from Xaltipan
225(23)
Elsie Rockwell
Asian Case Studies
248(1)
Developing a Literate Tradition in Six Marginal Communities in the Philippines: Interrelations of Literacy, Education, and Social Development
248(36)
Maria Luisa Canieso Doronila
Issues of Literacy Development in the Indian Context
284(12)
Chander Daswani
Women and Empowerment through Literacy
296(21)
Malini Ghose
Part III: Conclusion: From Research to Policy 317(20)
Literacy and Social Development: Policy and Implementation
319(18)
Ingrid Jung
Adama Ouane
Name Index 337(6)
Subject Index 343

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