This 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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Offers a detailed examination of theories about literacy developed by different academic disciplines and proposes an "ideological" model of literacy. Looks at contemporary literacy practices in the third world and Britain and, in particular, the literacy campaigns conducted by UNESCO.
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I shall attempt to establish the general outlines of what I term the 'autonomous' model of literacy by examining in detail the work of some writers who have explicitly addressed themselves to questions of literacy and its cognitive consequences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
specific literacy practices, literate modes, unschooled children, social dogma, regarding literacy, different literacies, grander claims, particular literacy, literate practices, literate forms, literacy programmes, alphabetic literacy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Literacy Crusade, Royal Society, Third World, Mullah Nasr-ed-Din, Domesday Book, Persepolis Symposium, Shiite Islam, Garuda Purana, Khorosan Province, New York, North East Iran, Word of God, John Lyons, Ministry of Education, Ruth Finnegan New!
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I shall attempt to establish the general outlines of what I term the 'autonomous' model of literacy by examining in detail the work of some writers who have explicitly addressed themselves to questions of literacy and its cognitive consequences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
specific literacy practices, literate modes, unschooled children, social dogma, regarding literacy, different literacies, grander claims, particular literacy, literate practices, literate forms, literacy programmes, alphabetic literacy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Literacy Crusade, Royal Society, Third World, Mullah Nasr-ed-Din, Domesday Book, Persepolis Symposium, Shiite Islam, Garuda Purana, Khorosan Province, New York, North East Iran, Word of God, John Lyons, Ministry of Education, Ruth Finnegan New!
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- The Domestication of the Savage Mind (Themes in the Social Sciences) by Jack Goody in Front Matter, page 48, and Back Matter
- Reading and Writing: Literacy in France from Calvin to Jules Ferry (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture) by Francois Furet in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Literacy and Social Development in the West: A Reader (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture) by Harvey J. Graff in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on page 60, and Back Matter
- The Psychology of Literacy by Sylvia Scribner on page 102, and Back Matter
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- Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies: Instances of Practice (New Perspectives on Language and Education) by Kate Pahl on 5 pages
- Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) by James Collins on 5 pages
- The Making of Literate Societies by David R. Olson on 4 pages
- Challenging Ways Of Knowing: In English, Mathematics And Science by Dave Baker on 4 pages
- John Dee -EMC (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture) by William H. Sherman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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