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

ISBN-13: 9780582102217 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 192 str.

Brian Street; B. V. Street

Opis

This text examines literacy, politics and social change, the ethnography of literacy and literacy in education, and explores a new critical framework.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Brian V. Street