Social Literacies

Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-582-10221-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 252 g

Reihe: Real Language Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Street, Brian V.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Section 1: Literacy, Politics and Social Change
Introduction
1 Putting Literacies on the Political Agenda
2 Literacy and Social Change: The Significance of Social Context in the Development of Literacy Programmes

Section 2: The Ethnography of Literacy
Introduction

3. The Uses of Literacy and Anthropology in Iran
4. Orality and Literacy as Ideological Constructions: Some Problems in Cross-cultural Studies

Section 3. Literacy in Education
Introduction
5. The Schooling of Literacy
6. The Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Pedagogy

Section 4: Towards a Critical Framework
Introduction
7. A critical Look at Walter Ong and the `Great Divide'
8. Literacy Practices and Literacy Myths

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brian V. Street