Situated Literacies : Theorising Reading and Writing in Context

ISBN-13: 9780415206709 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 222 str.

David Barton; Mary Hamilton; Roz Ivanic

Opis

Literacies are situated. All uses of written language can be seen as located in particular times and places. Equally, all literate activity is indicative of broader social practices. This text is a varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices. Detailed ethnographic studies of a wide variety of specific situations, all involving real texts and lived practices, are balanced with general claims about the nature of literacy.

Recenzje

'This is an up-to-date collection of research-based articles on the social, communicative activities of reading and writing, edited by three of the people who have put Lancaster University on the international map as a centre for original and interesting literacy research ... and the overall flavour of the book is of a collection which is genuinely based on a shared conception of the topic of research and the theoretical concepts which are used for making sense of it.' - Neil Mercer, British Educational Research Journal

O autorze

David Barton, Mary Hamilton and Roz Ivanic are all based at Lancaster University. David Barton is the Literacies series editor and has previously collaborated with Mary Hamilton on Local Literacies (1998) Roz Ivanic is the co-author of The Politics of Writing (1997)