Literacy in Theory and PracticeThis book challenges conventional theories about literacy, and the practices which often arise from them. It attempts to provide a new perspective through which the variety of literacy practices across different cultures can be viewed and from which the practical issues that arise in specific literacy campaigns and programmes can be approached. Dr Street first examines the explicit theories developed about literacy within different academic disciplines, on the premise that these underlie statements about literacy within development campaigns and in everyday usage. He analyses in detail arguments about the 'technical' and 'neutral' nature of literacy and its supposed 'cognitive' consequences in the work of some psychologists, linguists and social anthropologists. He claims that these amount to a coherent but flawed model that he terms the 'autonomous' model of literacy. Against this he poses an 'ideological' model, one which pays greater attention to the social structure. He attempts to bring together recent shifts in this direction in writings on literacy and to construct a coherent model for further work. |
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... academics , for instance , in claiming objec- tivity , neutrality and greater logic for what they have to say , appeal to the ' technical ' qualities of literacy , in which they are proficient , to legitimise assertions that might ...
... academics , for instance , in claiming objec- tivity , neutrality and greater logic for what they have to say , appeal to the ' technical ' qualities of literacy , in which they are proficient , to legitimise assertions that might ...
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... academic literature , though it is more often implicit in that produced as part of practical literacy programmes . The model tends , I claim , to be based on the ' essay - text ' form of literacy and to generalise broadly from what is ...
... academic literature , though it is more often implicit in that produced as part of practical literacy programmes . The model tends , I claim , to be based on the ' essay - text ' form of literacy and to generalise broadly from what is ...
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... Academic writing on social change and development has been signifi- cant in contributing concepts of literacy that underlie many Unesco devel- opment programmes . I argue that much of this literature tends towards the ' autonomous ...
... Academic writing on social change and development has been signifi- cant in contributing concepts of literacy that underlie many Unesco devel- opment programmes . I argue that much of this literature tends towards the ' autonomous ...
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Contents
The Autonomous Model I Literacy and Rationality | 19 |
The Autonomous Model II Goody | 44 |
Literacy and Linguistics | 66 |
The Ideological Model | 95 |
Introduction | 129 |
Maktab Literacy | 132 |
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