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The social uses of literacy : theory and practice in contemporary South Africa /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Bertsham, South Africa : Philadelphia :
Sached Books ; J. Benjamins,
[1996]
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| Colección: | Studies in written language and literacy ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 and positions. What this means is made clear through a series of fine-grained accounts of social uses and meanings of literacy in contexts ranging from the taxi industry in Cape Town, to family farms, urban settlements and displacement sites, rural land holdings, and various sites during the 1994 ele. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 279 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027282996 9027282994 1283222361 9781283222365 9786613222367 6613222364 |