Social Literacies Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education

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.

AcknowledgementsIntroductionSection 1: Literacy, Politics and Social ChangeIntroduction1 Putting Literacies on the Political Agenda2 Literacy and Social Change: The Significance of Social Context in the Development of Literacy ProgrammesSection 2: The Ethnography of LiteracyIntroduction 3. The Uses of Literacy and Anthropology in Iran4. Orality and Literacy as Ideological Constructions: Some Problems in Cross-cultural StudiesSection 3. Literacy in EducationIntroduction5. The Schooling of Literacy6. The Implications of the New Literacy Studies for PedagogySection 4: Towards a Critical FrameworkIntroduction7. A critical Look at Walter Ong and the `Great Divide'8. Literacy Practices and Literacy MythsIndex

Brian V. Street