Knowledge, Culture and Power: International Perspectives on Literacy as Policy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781850008347 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 252 str.

Anthony R. Welch

Opis

A collection of original pieces written by recognised scholars in literary studies from around the world. Some of the pieces report data on access to literacy competence for various sub-national minority groups, some focus on the historical role of literacy in the maintenance or suppression of marginal groups, and some pay close attention to important policy, public, or media accounts of literacy. What gives this collection cohension is a perception of literacy education among the authors as a potent ally in programmes of both freedom and oppression, and the commitment to present ways of viewing the working of these macro-political agenda in the details of policy and practice.

Spis treści

Introduction - explanations of the current international literacy crises, A.R. Welch and P. Freebody; literacy strategies - a view from the International Literacy Year Secretatiat of UNESCO, L.J. Limage; the pen and the sword - literacy, education and the revolution of Kurdistan, A. Hassampour; aboriginal education in Northern Australia - a case study of literacy policies and practices, C. Walton; rights and expectations in an Age of Debt Crisis - literacy and integral human development in Papua New Guinea, N. Ahai and N. Faraclas; literacy and primary education in India, K. Kumar; adult literacy in Nicaragua 1979-90, C. Lankshear; literacy and the dynamics of language planning - the dynamics of Singapore, A. Kwan-Terry and J. Kwan-Terry; the troubled text - history and language in American university writing programmes, J. Collins; workplace literacy in Australia - competing agendas, P. O'Connor; individualisation and domestication in current literacy debates in Australia, P. Freebody and A.R. Welch.

O autorze

Anthony R. Welch, Peter Freebody