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Literacy and literacies : texts, power, and identity /

"Literacy and Literacies offers a unique, comprehensive survey of both classical and current (mainly anthropological) literature in the field of literacy studies, combined with in-depth critical discussion of particular cases. It explores questions of power, cultural form, and historical proces...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Collins, James, 1952-
Autres auteurs: Blot, Richard K.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Collection:Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. 22.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: texts, power and identity
  • The literary thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development, and self
  • Situated approaches to the literacy debate
  • Literacies and power in modern nation states: EuroAmerican lessons
  • Literacies and identity formation: American cases
  • Literacy, power and identity: colonial legacies and indigenous transformations
  • Conclusion: Literacy lessons: beginnings, ends, and implications.