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Social Literacies Brian V. Street

Social Literacies By Brian V. Street

Social Literacies by Brian V. Street


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Summary

This text examines literacy, politics and social change, the ethnography of literacy and literacy in education, and explores a new critical framework.

Social Literacies Summary

Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education by Brian V. Street

Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective. It represents part of the current trend towards a broader consideration of literacy as social practices, and as its title suggests, it focuses on the social nature of reading and writing and the multiple character of literacy practices.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Section 1: Literacy, Politics and Social Change
Introduction
1 Putting Literacies on the Political Agenda
2 Literacy and Social Change: The Significance of Social Context in the Development of Literacy Programmes

Section 2: The Ethnography of Literacy
Introduction
3. The Uses of Literacy and Anthropology in Iran
4. Orality and Literacy as Ideological Constructions: Some Problems in Cross-cultural Studies

Section 3. Literacy in Education
Introduction
5. The Schooling of Literacy
6. The Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Pedagogy

Section 4: Towards a Critical Framework
Introduction
7. A critical Look at Walter Ong and the `Great Divide'
8. Literacy Practices and Literacy Myths

Index

Additional information

NLS9780582102217
9780582102217
0582102219
Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education by Brian V. Street
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
19950609
192
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