Literacy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives

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Brian V. Street
Psychology Press, 2001 - 228 pages

Literacy and Development is a collection of case studies of literacy projects around the world.
The contributors present their in-depth studies of everyday uses and meanings of literacy and of the literacy programmes that have been developed to enhance them. Arguing that ethnographic research can and should inform literacy policy in developing countries, the book extends current theory and itself contributes to policy making and programme building.
A large cross-section of society is covered, with chapters on Women's literacy in Pakistan, Ghana, and Rural Mali, literacy in village Iran, and an 'Older Peoples' Literacy Project.
This international collection includes case studies from: Peru, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, Mali, Nepal, Iran, Eritrea, Ghana.

 

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Table des matières

Introduction
1
Literacy and development ethnographic perspectives on schooling and adult education
19
Introduction
21
Literacy schooling and development views of Rabari nomads India
27
Literacy your key to a better future? Literacy reconciliation and development in the National Literacy Programme in Namibia
40
More than just chanting multilingual literacies ideology and teaching methodologies in rural Eritrea
61
Betrayal and solidarity in ethnography on literacy revisiting research homework in a north Indian village
78
Literacy and development local literacies and development agendas
93
Literacies languages and developments in Peruvian Amazonia
103
Another language another literacy? Practices in northern Ghana
121
Literacy and the market the economic uses of literacy among the peasantry in northwest Bangladesh
137
Womens literacy and health can an ethnographic researcher find the links?
152
Household literacy environments as contexts for development in rural China
171
Literacies gender and power in rural Pakistan
188
problematising literacy and development
205
Index
223

Introduction
95
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À propos de l'auteur (2001)

Brian Street is Professor of Language in Education at King's College, London, and Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Literacy in Theory and Practice, Cross-cultural Approaches to Literacy, and Social Literacies.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreLiteracy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives
Literacies Series
RédacteurBrian V. Street
Éditionillustrée
ÉditeurPsychology Press, 2001
ISBN0415234514, 9780415234511
Longueur228 pages
  
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