1st Edition

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

By Brian V. Street Copyright 1995
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Brian V. Street