Literacy and Orality at Work

ISBN-13: 9781433183331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 244 str.

Frank Sligo

Opis

In exploring the everyday workplace and community environments of adults with liminal literacy, this book demonstrates how a media ecology perspective allows adult literacy and orality to be reimagined within a deeper and more holistic way than possible within disconnected disciplinary areas.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Orality and Literacy - Apprentices' Literacy and Orality - The Literacy Tutors - Supervisors and Communities of Practice - Liminal Literacy and Social Practice Views - Managers' Orality and Literacy - Literacy, Cognition, and Knowledge - References - Author Index - Subject Index.

O autorze

Frank Sligo (PhD, Massey University) is Professor of Communication at Massey University Wellington, New Zealand. His research areas of interest include adult literacy and orality, the knowledge gap hypothesis and information richness and poverty. His teaching interests are in student work-integrated learning.