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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... . Finally , I shall attempt to show how the model applies to certain Unesco programmes for literacy and also to adult literacy campaigns in the UK and the USA . INTRODUCTION Section 1 : Literacy in Theory I shall use Prolegomenon xi.
... . Finally , I shall attempt to show how the model applies to certain Unesco programmes for literacy and also to adult literacy campaigns in the UK and the USA . INTRODUCTION Section 1 : Literacy in Theory I shall use Prolegomenon xi.
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... literacy ' as a shorthand for the social practices and conceptions of ... literacy studies . I shall contend that what the particular practices and concepts of ... programmes . The model tends , I claim , to be based on the ' essay - text ...
... literacy ' as a shorthand for the social practices and conceptions of ... literacy studies . I shall contend that what the particular practices and concepts of ... programmes . The model tends , I claim , to be based on the ' essay - text ...
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... Literacy in Theory and Practice I provide an analysis of the political and ideological context in which education provision in general and literacy programmes in particular are to be found in a particular area of Iran . I suggest that ...
... Literacy in Theory and Practice I provide an analysis of the political and ideological context in which education provision in general and literacy programmes in particular are to be found in a particular area of Iran . I suggest that ...
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... literacy which they then adapted to the requirements of their new com- mercial position . I argue that this adaptation provides a good example of what I mean by the ' ideological ' nature of literacy ... programmes follow from the adop- tion ...
... literacy which they then adapted to the requirements of their new com- mercial position . I argue that this adaptation provides a good example of what I mean by the ' ideological ' nature of literacy ... programmes follow from the adop- tion ...
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... literacy is a threshold for economic development has been taken more literally than he intended and underlies many programmes . What such assumptions fail to specify is what particular literacy practices and concepts that proportion of ...
... literacy is a threshold for economic development has been taken more literally than he intended and underlies many programmes . What such assumptions fail to specify is what particular literacy practices and concepts that proportion of ...
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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