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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... problems they lead to . I then pose what I term an ' alternative model ' of literacy and attempt to pursue the consequences of this approach for the kinds of problems vari- ous disciplines are currently concerned with . I shall use x ...
... problems they lead to . I then pose what I term an ' alternative model ' of literacy and attempt to pursue the consequences of this approach for the kinds of problems vari- ous disciplines are currently concerned with . I shall use x ...
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... problems . All three authors then related such differences to the intrinsic qualities of writing . I argue that such conceptions are mistaken on a number of grounds : 1 The work of social psychologists , social anthropologists ...
... problems . All three authors then related such differences to the intrinsic qualities of writing . I argue that such conceptions are mistaken on a number of grounds : 1 The work of social psychologists , social anthropologists ...
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... problems not only in the representations of literacy itself made by these anthropologists but also in their more general accounts of social change , religious thought and ideology in the societies they de- scribe . It is , therefore ...
... problems not only in the representations of literacy itself made by these anthropologists but also in their more general accounts of social change , religious thought and ideology in the societies they de- scribe . It is , therefore ...
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... problem solving ' ideology within which many literacy programmes operate , and substitutes for it the notion of ... problems ' arose in the first place . Freire's work has been taken as a direct political challenge to the he- gemony ...
... problem solving ' ideology within which many literacy programmes operate , and substitutes for it the notion of ... problems ' arose in the first place . Freire's work has been taken as a direct political challenge to the he- gemony ...
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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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