The Making of Literate Societies

This volume provides a systematic analysis of the role of literacy in social development, and advances a set of directions that governments and other agencies should take in designing their literacy programmes.

David R. Olson is University Professor and Professor of Applied Cognitive Science at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Nancy Torrance is Senior Research Officer at the International Centre for Educational Change at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance edited the Blackwell Handbook of Education and Human Development (Blackwell Publishers, 1995).

List of Contributors

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Preface

x

Part I: On Being a Literate Society: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives on Literacy

1

(120)

Conceptualizing Literacy as a Personal Skill and as a Social Practice

3

(16)

David R. Olson

Nancy Torrance

The Roles of Literacy Practices in the Activities and Institutions of Developed and Developing Countries

19

(35)

Armin Triebel

Societal Literacy: Writing Culture and Development

54

(14)

Georg Elwert

Literacy in Ancient Greece: Functional Literacy, Oral Education, and the Development of a Literate Environment

68

(14)

Rosalind Thomas

Literacy in Germany

82

(19)

Utz Maas

Literacy in Japan: Kanji, Kana, Romaji, and Bits

101

(20)

Florian Coulmas

Part II: On Becoming a Literate Society: Literacy in Developing Societies

121

(196)

African Case Studies

123

(1)

Language, Literacy, the Production and Reproduction of Knowledge, and the Challenge of African Development

123

(19)

Kwesi K. Prah

Literacy and Literature in Indigenous Languages in Benin and Burkina-Faso

142

(11)

Joseph Akoha

Constructive Interdependence: The Response of a Senegalese Community to the Question of Why Become Literate

153

(25)

Sonja Fagerberg-Diallo

Literacy for Gonja and Birifor Children in Northern Ghana

178

(23)

Esther Goody

JoAnne Bennett

Central and South American Case Studies

201

(1)

Literacy and Intercultural Bilingual Education in the Andes

201

(24)

Luis Enrique Lopez

The Uses of Orality and Literacy in Rural Mexico: Tales from Xaltipan

225

(23)

Elsie Rockwell

Asian Case Studies

248

(1)

Developing a Literate Tradition in Six Marginal Communities in the Philippines: Interrelations of Literacy, Education, and Social Development

248

(36)

Maria Luisa Canieso Doronila

Issues of Literacy Development in the Indian Context

284

(12)

Chander Daswani

Women and Empowerment through Literacy

296

(21)

Malini Ghose

Part III: Conclusion: From Research to Policy

317

(20)

Literacy and Social Development: Policy and Implementation

319

(18)

Ingrid Jung

Adama Ouane

Name Index

337

(6)

Subject Index

343

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