Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education

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ISBN: 9780582102217 | 0582102219
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Copyright: 6/9/1995

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Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective. It represents part of the current trend towards a broader consideration of literacy as social practices, and as its title suggests, it focuses on the social nature of reading and writing and the multiple character of literacy practices.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Literacy, Politics and Social Change
Introduction
Putting Literacies on the Political Agenda
Literacy and Social Change: The Significance of Social Context in the Development of Literacy Programmes
The Ethnography of Literacy
Introduction
The Uses of Literacy and Anthropology in Iran
Orality and Literacy as Ideological Constructions: Some Problems in Cross-cultural Studies
Literacy in Education
Introduction
The Schooling of Literacy
The Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Pedagogy
Towards a Critical Framework
Introduction
A critical Look at Walter Ong and the 'Great Divide'
Literacy Practices and Literacy Myths
Index
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Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education

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