This book illustrates the latest developments in literacy and language assessment in the digital context, and subsequently presents a rigorous validation study on a newly proposed form of assessment (scenario-based assessment, SBA) that seeks to respond to the contextual change …
In a documentarian investigation of major LGBTQ archives in the United States, Queer Literacies: Discourses and Discontents identifies the homophobic discourses that prevailed in the twentieth century by the discursive forces that sponsored the nation's literacy acquisition. Mar…
The pastoral home school: rural vernacular, and grassroots literacies in early socialist Mongolia -- How to think like a socialist: official representations of literacy in socialist Mongolia -- Literacy under authority: the young pioneers and the cultural campaigns -- Sponsorshi…
'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.
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.
With Pedagogy of Hope, Freire explores his best-known analytical themes - with even deeper understanding and a greater wisdom. Certainly, all of these themes have to be analyzed as elements of a body of critical, liberationist pedagogy. In the present book, we come to understand…