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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... Iran during the 1970s and , on the other , out of a course on the anthropology of literacy that I offer as part of the Social Anthropology major at Sussex . Friends , colleagues , students and others in both contexts have contributed to ...
... Iran during the 1970s and , on the other , out of a course on the anthropology of literacy that I offer as part of the Social Anthropology major at Sussex . Friends , colleagues , students and others in both contexts have contributed to ...
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... Iran during the 1970s in order to test out the model I am proposing in more detail and I shall attempt to suggest some directions for further research and some of the bases for a more general theory of literacies . Finally , I shall ...
... Iran during the 1970s in order to test out the model I am proposing in more detail and I shall attempt to suggest some directions for further research and some of the bases for a more general theory of literacies . Finally , I shall ...
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... Iran . I suggest that the detailed study of one such area provides a concrete test of the ideas formulated in Chapters 1-4 and that the material from this area has some general significance . The area under analysis is that around ...
... Iran . I suggest that the detailed study of one such area provides a concrete test of the ideas formulated in Chapters 1-4 and that the material from this area has some general significance . The area under analysis is that around ...
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... Iranian material ? This material was used as a test case for the alterna- tive model of literacy I have been trying to develop . How successfully does its application here suggest that the model can be used ? Is a more general ...
... Iranian material ? This material was used as a test case for the alterna- tive model of literacy I have been trying to develop . How successfully does its application here suggest that the model can be used ? Is a more general ...
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... Iran , and attempt to elicit the underlying theories on which they are based in the light of the analyses developed ... Iranian work - oriented literacy programme , for instance , was ac- cepted as increasing ' the social exclusiveness ...
... Iran , and attempt to elicit the underlying theories on which they are based in the light of the analyses developed ... Iranian work - oriented literacy programme , for instance , was ac- cepted as increasing ' the social exclusiveness ...
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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