"The Power of Words examines the struggle for literacy in the linguistically diverse, socially complex, and politically sensitive coastal province of Guangdong in southeastern China between 1949 and 1995. Addressing the Mao Zedong era as well as the profound economic changes of …
Intellectually and morally acute, vibrantly alive ... parents, teachers or legislators who miss this richly clarifying discourse on the contemporary politics of literacy deserve to sit in the corner for a week.
This title offers a research based new approach to understanding literacy as a process and a social practice, drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. "Mapping Multiple Literacies" brings together the latest theory and research in the fields of literacy study and European ph…
'Talking About Literacy' is a book about our concepts of literacy and its uses. It is about adult education in its broadest sense. It covers training opportunities for employment, women's education, 'access' to higher education and language and literacy policies. It is a book no…
Explores the theory behind adult literacy education - discussing the arguments in favour of literacy, and analysing principles by which literacy may be creatively learned, looking in detail at context, equality and community.
The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa challenges state-driven policy and provision in South Africa around the construction of a national delivery system for adult literacy that is part of a programme for Adult Basic Education. The implicat…
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 c…
