The Social Uses of Literacy : Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa.

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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 contexts, discourses a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prinsloo, Mastin
Otros Autores: Breier, Mignonne, Street, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1996.
Temas:
Literacy > Social aspects > South Africa.
Adult education > Social aspects > South Africa.
Education and state > South Africa.
Popular education > South Africa.
Éducation des adultes > Aspect social > Afrique du Sud.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > Afrique du Sud.
Éducation populaire > Afrique du Sud.
Adult education > Social aspects
Education and state
Literacy > Social aspects
Popular education
South Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Section 1. Literacies at work; Chapter 1. Literacy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the first democratic national elections in South Africa; Chapter 2. Literacy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape; Chapter 3. Literacy and communication in a Cape factory; Chapter 4. Communicative practices of the service staff of a school.
  • Section 2. Mediating literaciesChapter 5. Literacy mediation and social identity in Newtown, Eastern Cape; Chapter 6. Cultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies: land struggles in Namaqualand's Coloured reserves; Chapter 7. Literacy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South; Chapter 8. 'We can all sing, but we can't all talk': literacy brokers and tsotsi gangsters in a Cape Town shantytown; Section 3. Contextualising literacies: policy lessons; Chapter 9. Literacy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity: Khayelitshan ways of knowing.
  • Chapter 10. 'We are waiting/this is our home': literacy and the search for resources in the rural Eastern CapeChapter 11. Taking literacy for a ride
  • reading andwriting in the taxi industry; Chapter 12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula; Afterword; References; Index.

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