Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education

by Street,Brian V.

• ISBN13: 9780582102217
• ISBN10: 0582102219
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-06-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Literacy, Politics and Social Change

Introduction

Putting Literacies on the Political Agenda

Literacy and Social Change: The Significance of Social Context in the Development of Literacy Programmes

The Ethnography of Literacy

Introduction

The Uses of Literacy and Anthropology in Iran

Orality and Literacy as Ideological Constructions: Some Problems in Cross-cultural Studies

Literacy in Education

Introduction

The Schooling of Literacy

The Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Pedagogy

Towards a Critical Framework

Introduction

A critical Look at Walter Ong and the 'Great Divide'

Literacy Practices and Literacy Myths

Index

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