Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written LanguageThis introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition. It explores recent developments and new research that has contributed to our understanding of literacy practices, reflecting on the interdisciplinary growth of the study of reading and writing over the past decade.
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... of this second edition in detailed ways, especially in contributing to the parts on workplace literacies and on new technologies; equally importantly she has suggested sections to shorten and has tried to keep Preface.
... of this second edition in detailed ways, especially in contributing to the parts on workplace literacies and on new technologies; equally importantly she has suggested sections to shorten and has tried to keep Preface.
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... technological and social change is affecting what we know and how we communicate. The nature of knowledge and the ... technologies. This is happening throughout industrialized countries. Meanwhile, in developing countries there is a ...
... technological and social change is affecting what we know and how we communicate. The nature of knowledge and the ... technologies. This is happening throughout industrialized countries. Meanwhile, in developing countries there is a ...
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... technologies on our lives, the need for adult literacy provision. All sorts of people talk about literacy and make assumptions about it, both within education and beyond it. The business manager bemoans the lack of literacy skills in ...
... technologies on our lives, the need for adult literacy provision. All sorts of people talk about literacy and make assumptions about it, both within education and beyond it. The business manager bemoans the lack of literacy skills in ...
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... technologies processes of reading and writing pre-school literacy, emergent literacy learning in schools learning at home, in the community, at work adult learning, adult literacy, adults returning to study the politics of literacy ...
... technologies processes of reading and writing pre-school literacy, emergent literacy learning in schools learning at home, in the community, at work adult learning, adult literacy, adults returning to study the politics of literacy ...
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... technological change, and literacy and power relations. The first part, the archaeology of literacy, looks at the origin of writing, how it arose out of earlier systems, its relationship to social structure, and the wide range of ...
... technological change, and literacy and power relations. The first part, the archaeology of literacy, looks at the origin of writing, how it arose out of earlier systems, its relationship to social structure, and the wide range of ...
Contents
The social basis of literacy | |
Researching literacy practices | |
Literacy embedded in language | |
Configurations of language | |
Writing systems and other notations | |
Points in history | |
The roots of literacy | |
Emergent literacy | |
Public definitions of literacy | |
School practices | |
Adults and world literacy | |
Some implications of an ecological view | |
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