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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... attempting to explain messianic religious movements , have appealed to theories of literacy , in order to describe the ... attempt to pursue the consequences of this approach for the kinds of problems vari- ous disciplines are currently ...
... attempting to explain messianic religious movements , have appealed to theories of literacy , in order to describe the ... attempt to pursue the consequences of this approach for the kinds of problems vari- ous disciplines are currently ...
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... attempt to suggest some directions for further research and some of the bases for a more general theory of literacies . Finally , I shall attempt to show how the model applies to certain Unesco programmes for literacy and also to adult ...
... attempt to suggest some directions for further research and some of the bases for a more general theory of literacies . Finally , I shall attempt to show how the model applies to certain Unesco programmes for literacy and also to adult ...
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... attempting to establish some of the theoretical foundations for a description of such practices and conceptions and will challenge assumptions , whether implicit or explicit , that currently dominate the field of literacy studies . I ...
... attempting to establish some of the theoretical foundations for a description of such practices and conceptions and will challenge assumptions , whether implicit or explicit , that currently dominate the field of literacy studies . I ...
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... attempts to distinguish literacy from schooling . It isolates literacy as an independent variable and then claims to be able to study its consequences . These conse- quences are classically represented in terms of economic ' take off or ...
... attempts to distinguish literacy from schooling . It isolates literacy as an independent variable and then claims to be able to study its consequences . These conse- quences are classically represented in terms of economic ' take off or ...
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... attempt to give the legitimacy of the ' technical ' to statements about rationality that would otherwise appear to ... attempted to outline what he Introduction.
... attempt to give the legitimacy of the ' technical ' to statements about rationality that would otherwise appear to ... attempted to outline what he Introduction.
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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