Demonstrating what it is like to be an adult learner in todaya (TM)s world, this book focuses on language, literacy and numeracy learning. The authors explore the complex relationship between learning and adultsa (TM) lives, following a wide range of individual students in various formal learning situations, from college environments to a young homeless project, and a drug support and aftercare centre.
The study is rooted in a social practices approach and examines how peoplea (TM)s lives shape their learning. Themes addressed range from: how literacy is learned through participation...
Demonstrating what it is like to be an adult learner in todaya (TM)s world, this book focuses on language, literacy and numeracy learning. The auth...
This introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition. It explores recent developments and new research that has contributed to our understanding of literacy practices, reflecting on the interdisciplinary growth of the study of reading and writing over the past decade.
An introductory textbook on the growing field of literacy studies, fully updated for the new edition
Includes new sections detailing recent completed studies of literacy practices, and the use of new...
This introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition. It explores recent developments and new re...
We live in a textually-mediated world where writing is central to society, its cultural practices and institutions. Writing has been the subject of much research but it is usually highly visible and valued texts that are studied -- the work of novelists, poets and scholars.
The studies included in this book examine every day acts of writing and their significance. Ordinary quotidian writing may be viewed as mundane and routine, but it is central to how societies operate and the ways individuals relate to each other and to institutions.
Examples discussed in the book including...
We live in a textually-mediated world where writing is central to society, its cultural practices and institutions. Writing has been the subject of...
