ISBN:
9789027282996
,
9027282994
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 279 pages)
,
illustrations.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Studies in written language and literacy v. no. 4
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Social uses of literacy
DDC:
302.22440968
Keywords:
Literacy Social aspects
;
South Africa
;
Adult education Social aspects
;
South Africa
;
Education and state South Africa
;
Popular education South Africa
;
Literacy Social aspects
;
Adult education Social aspects
;
Education and state
;
Popular education
;
Educación de adultos Aspectos sociales
;
Sudáfrica
;
Educación y estado Sudáfrica
;
Educación popular Sudáfrica
;
South Africa
;
Südafrika 〈Staat〉
;
Education and state
;
Literacy ; Social aspects
;
Popular education
;
Alfabetisering
;
Alphabetisierung
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Literacy
;
Adult education ; Social aspects
;
South Africa
;
Südafrika 〈Staat〉
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Section 1. Literacies at work -- section 2. Mediating literacies -- section 3. Contextualising literacies : policy lessons.
Abstract:
This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal education, but as social practices embedded in specific contexts, discourses and positions. What this means is made clear through a series of fine-grained accounts of social uses and meanings of literacy in contexts ranging from the taxi industry in Cape Town, to family farms, urban settlements and displacement sites, rural land holdings, and various sites during the 1994 ele
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274) and index. - Description based on print version record
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