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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... modes rather than stressing a ' great divide ' . The writers I am discussing do not necessarily couch their argument in the terms I am adopting . But , nevertheless , I maintain that the use of the term ' model ' to describe their ...
... modes rather than stressing a ' great divide ' . The writers I am discussing do not necessarily couch their argument in the terms I am adopting . But , nevertheless , I maintain that the use of the term ' model ' to describe their ...
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... modes of communication is that oral and literate modes are ' mixed ' in each society . There is nothing absolute about a shift to greater use of literate modes , which is better described as a change in the ' mix ' . Oral conventions ...
... modes of communication is that oral and literate modes are ' mixed ' in each society . There is nothing absolute about a shift to greater use of literate modes , which is better described as a change in the ' mix ' . Oral conventions ...
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... modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ' mixed ' and interacting modes . Despite the density and complexity of social detail in Goody's descriptions of literacy practice , there is a peculiar ...
... modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ' mixed ' and interacting modes . Despite the density and complexity of social detail in Goody's descriptions of literacy practice , there is a peculiar ...
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... mode of produc- tion ' . Differences ' in levels of literacy and reading habits tend to spring from these arrangements rather than giving rise to them ' ( ibid . ) . History may be re - constructed in literate as well as in oral ...
... mode of produc- tion ' . Differences ' in levels of literacy and reading habits tend to spring from these arrangements rather than giving rise to them ' ( ibid . ) . History may be re - constructed in literate as well as in oral ...
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... modes and that written forms were adapted to oral practice rather than radically changing it . He thus provides evidence to challenge the grander claims for the radical shift supposedly entailed by the acquisition of literacy . His care ...
... modes and that written forms were adapted to oral practice rather than radically changing it . He thus provides evidence to challenge the grander claims for the radical shift supposedly entailed by the acquisition of literacy . His care ...
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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