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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Page 9
... political formation are in fact possible and not just the single outcome that his ' literacy determin- ism ' suggests . Classes and the development of individualism , which Goody related to the spread of literacy , were taken by Gough ...
... political formation are in fact possible and not just the single outcome that his ' literacy determin- ism ' suggests . Classes and the development of individualism , which Goody related to the spread of literacy , were taken by Gough ...
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... political and ideological context in which education provision in general and literacy programmes in particular are to be found in a particular area of Iran . I suggest that the detailed study of one such area provides a concrete test ...
... political and ideological context in which education provision in general and literacy programmes in particular are to be found in a particular area of Iran . I suggest that the detailed study of one such area provides a concrete test ...
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... political pamphlets etc. ) . This literacy has now acquired some signifi- cance , but for a different social segment . Newly literate youths , even those trained in city schools , do not apply this ' school ' literacy to the commer ...
... political pamphlets etc. ) . This literacy has now acquired some signifi- cance , but for a different social segment . Newly literate youths , even those trained in city schools , do not apply this ' school ' literacy to the commer ...
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... political context . I shall attempt to place this classic debate into the general context of the models of literacy described in Sections 1 and 2 . Academic writing on social change and development has been signifi- cant in contributing ...
... political context . I shall attempt to place this classic debate into the general context of the models of literacy described in Sections 1 and 2 . Academic writing on social change and development has been signifi- cant in contributing ...
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... political challenge to the he- gemony of ruling capitalist states and of the Unesco programmes that are taken to subserve their interests . But his analyses often appear to be rooted in the kinds of theory of cognitive development and ...
... political challenge to the he- gemony of ruling capitalist states and of the Unesco programmes that are taken to subserve their interests . But his analyses often appear to be rooted in the kinds of theory of cognitive development and ...
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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