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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 46
Page 2
... material , some of which Anderson himself provides , demonstrates that such practices and conceptions are very different from one culture to another . The homogenisation of such variety , which is implied by the statistical measures and ...
... material , some of which Anderson himself provides , demonstrates that such practices and conceptions are very different from one culture to another . The homogenisation of such variety , which is implied by the statistical measures and ...
Page 6
... material on cargo cults in terms of the ' ideological ' model of literacy rather than the ' autonomous ' model is an important task awaiting anthropologists . Many of the claims that I examine regarding literacy rest upon theories that ...
... material on cargo cults in terms of the ' ideological ' model of literacy rather than the ' autonomous ' model is an important task awaiting anthropologists . Many of the claims that I examine regarding literacy rest upon theories that ...
Page 9
... material and ideas that could be construed as lending support to the ' ideological ' model of literacy and as a challenge to the ' autono- mous ' model . In The Domestication of the Savage Mind ( 1977 ) he empha- sises the importance of ...
... material and ideas that could be construed as lending support to the ' ideological ' model of literacy and as a challenge to the ' autono- mous ' model . In The Domestication of the Savage Mind ( 1977 ) he empha- sises the importance of ...
Page 11
... material from this area has some general significance . The area under analysis is that around Mashad , the holy city and capital of Khorosan province in North East Iran on the border with Afghanistan . I did anthropological field work ...
... material from this area has some general significance . The area under analysis is that around Mashad , the holy city and capital of Khorosan province in North East Iran on the border with Afghanistan . I did anthropological field work ...
Page 12
... material ? This material was used as a test case for the alterna- tive model of literacy I have been trying to develop . How successfully does its application here suggest that the model can be used ? Is a more general application ...
... material ? This material was used as a test case for the alterna- tive model of literacy I have been trying to develop . How successfully does its application here suggest that the model can be used ? Is a more general application ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstract academic adult literacy ALBSU anthropologists appear argue argument associated assumptions attempt autonomous challenge Cheshmeh claims Clanchy classical Greece cognitive commercial communication concepts consequences of literacy context conventions culture described Dinka language economic English establish ethnocentric explicit fact forms of literacy framework functions Goody Goody's Graff Greenfield groups Hadith Hildyard and Olson ibid illiterate individual instance institutions intellectual involved Iran Iranian Islamic kind knowledge Koran learning linguistic literacy campaigns literacy practices literacy programmes literacy skills literate modes logic Lyons maktab Mashad meaning model of literacy mullah neutral Nicaragua non-literate objectivity oral and literate orchards organisation paralinguistic Parry particular political and ideological problems recognise relation represented scientific significant simply social society speech structure suggests tajers Tanzania teachers teaching theory tion tradition Unesco unschooled Vai script village western Wolof words written forms written language