Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education

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Cover......Page 0 Half Title......Page 2 Real Language Series......Page 3 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 7 Dedication......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Introduction......Page 10 Section 1: Literacy, Politics and Social Change......Page 20 Introduction......Page 21 1 Putting Literacies on the Political Agenda......Page 24 2 Literacy and Social Change: The Significance of Social Context in the Development of Literacy Programmes......Page 36 Section 2: The Ethnography of Literacy......Page 55 Introduction......Page 56 3 The Uses of Literacy and Antllropology in Iran......Page 60 4 Orality and Literacy as Ideological Constructions: Some Problems in Cross-Cultural Studies......Page 78 Section 3: Litefacy in Education......Page 103 Introduction......Page 104 5 The Schooling of Literacy......Page 107 6 The Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Pedagogy......Page 133 Section 4: Towards a Critical Framework......Page 148 Introduction......Page 149 7 A Critical Look at Walter Ong and the ‘Great Divide’......Page 152 8 Literacy Practices and Literacy Myths......Page 159 Index......Page 178