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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... teachers at the Iran - America Society in Mashad for similar help and support , in particular Carter and Judy Bryant , Jim and Ginny Goode and Greg and Jean Gary . André Singer , a colleague and friend , has provided considerable help ...
... teachers at the Iran - America Society in Mashad for similar help and support , in particular Carter and Judy Bryant , Jim and Ginny Goode and Greg and Jean Gary . André Singer , a colleague and friend , has provided considerable help ...
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... teach , and investigates the role of such teaching in social control and the hegemony of a ruling class . It concentrates on the overlap 2 Introduction.
... teach , and investigates the role of such teaching in social control and the hegemony of a ruling class . It concentrates on the overlap 2 Introduction.
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... teaching literacy are often forms of hegemony and it would be misleading in such contexts to represent the process of literacy acquisition as leading to greater ' criticalness ' and logical function- ing . Developments in ...
... teaching literacy are often forms of hegemony and it would be misleading in such contexts to represent the process of literacy acquisition as leading to greater ' criticalness ' and logical function- ing . Developments in ...
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... teaching literacy to people who would after- wards have no personal use for reading and writing was futile , proposed the creation of a ' literacy environment ' in which the skills learnt would not atrophy ( Unesco , 1971 ) . This ...
... teaching literacy to people who would after- wards have no personal use for reading and writing was futile , proposed the creation of a ' literacy environment ' in which the skills learnt would not atrophy ( Unesco , 1971 ) . This ...
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... similar campaigns were con- ducted both to set up research projects and to ' do something ' about ' illiteracy ' . Money was set aside to support voluntary teaching schemes and Quangos were set up to co - ordinate the 14 Introduction.
... similar campaigns were con- ducted both to set up research projects and to ' do something ' about ' illiteracy ' . Money was set aside to support voluntary teaching schemes and Quangos were set up to co - ordinate the 14 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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