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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... logic for what they have to say , appeal to the ' technical ' qualities of literacy , in which they are proficient ... logical statements are frequently related to groups of literates and illiterates : the researcher's assertions ...
... logic for what they have to say , appeal to the ' technical ' qualities of literacy , in which they are proficient ... logical statements are frequently related to groups of literates and illiterates : the researcher's assertions ...
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... logical processes exemplified by syllogisms , formal language , elaborated code etc. Against these assumptions I shall pose an ' ideological ' model of literacy . Those who subscribe to this model concentrate on the specific social ...
... logical processes exemplified by syllogisms , formal language , elaborated code etc. Against these assumptions I shall pose an ' ideological ' model of literacy . Those who subscribe to this model concentrate on the specific social ...
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... logical from the interperso- nal functions of language in a way that is less possible in oral discourse ( 1978 ) . Patricia Greenfield , whose work they refer to for ethnographic support , applied aspects of Bernstein's concepts of ...
... logical from the interperso- nal functions of language in a way that is less possible in oral discourse ( 1978 ) . Patricia Greenfield , whose work they refer to for ethnographic support , applied aspects of Bernstein's concepts of ...
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... logic beneath unfamiliar conventions . It challenged the gen- eral significance attributed to tests that are claimed to demonstrate the working of logic and suggested that they often test instead such factors as explicitness , the ...
... logic beneath unfamiliar conventions . It challenged the gen- eral significance attributed to tests that are claimed to demonstrate the working of logic and suggested that they often test instead such factors as explicitness , the ...
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... logical ' and ' pre - logical ' . This , he claims , is be- cause of the inherent qualities of the written word : writing ... logic ' , the distinction of myth from history , the elaboration of bureaucracy , the shift from ' little commu ...
... logical ' and ' pre - logical ' . This , he claims , is be- cause of the inherent qualities of the written word : writing ... logic ' , the distinction of myth from history , the elaboration of bureaucracy , the shift from ' little commu ...
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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