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…
This book argues that literacy functions as a means of tracking social change in modern Mongolia. Its leaders have used literacy to promote new ways of living and socialist identities. In post-socialist Mongolia, literacy expresses the anxieties that Mongolians feel as they navi…
This book argues that literacy functions as a means of tracking social change in modern Mongolia. Its leaders have used literacy to promote new ways of living and socialist identities. In post-socialist Mongolia, literacy expresses the anxieties that Mongolians feel as they navi…
Introduction -- Methodology and Sources -- The Poor Law: origins, attitudes and effects -- Education and the Eighteenth-Century Poor -- Literacy in the Community -- Formulaic sequences: a dual strategy for the uncoached writer -- Norms, Standards and Prestige -- Discourse and Rh…
"This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor. The main question addressed by the book is, 'H…
"This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor. The main question addressed by the book is, 'H…
1. Introduction : global literacy landscape and local literacy discovery -- 2. Theoretical frameworks : building a cultural model for literacy -- 3. Context matters : relevant trends in Kenya -- 4. Local contexts : rural school communities -- 5. Reading mothers' lives : connecti…
