ISBN:
0203468414
,
0415234506
,
0415234514
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 228 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Literacies
Parallel Title:
Print version Literacy and Development : Ethnographic Perspectives
DDC:
302.2/244/091724
Keywords:
Literacy Cross-cultural studies
;
Ethnology
Abstract:
The contributors present their in-depth studies of everyday uses and meanings of literacy and of the literacy programmes that have been developed to enhance them
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction; Literacy and development: ethnographic perspectives on schooling and adult education; Introduction; Literacy, schooling and development: views of Rabari nomads, India; 'Literacy; your key to a better future'? Literacy, reconciliation and development in the National Literacy Programme in Namibia; More than just chanting: multilingual literacies, ideology and teaching methodologies in rural Eritrea; Betrayal and solidarity in ethnography on literacy: revisiting research homework in a north Indian village
Description / Table of Contents:
Literacy and development: local literacies and development agendasIntroduction; Literacies, languages and developments in Peruvian Amazonia; Another language, another literacy? Practices in northern Ghana; Literacy and the market: the economic uses of literacy among the peasantry in north-west Bangladesh; Women's literacy and health: can an ethnographic researcher find the links?; Household literacy environments as contexts for development in rural China; Literacies, gender and power in rural Pakistan; Afterword: problematising literacy and development; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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