David Barton, Mary Hamilton

Local Literacies (eBook, ePUB)

Reading and Writing in One Community

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people's everyday lives. This reissue includes a completely new framing chapter which provides updates on the data and makes links to contemporary themes, in particular the connections between local and global activities, interfaces with institutional literacies, and the growing significance of digital literacies in everyday life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136448331
• Artikelnr.: 38246823

Autorenporträt

David Barton is Professor of Language and Literacy and Director of the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University, UK. He is series editor of the Literacies series (Routledge) and author and co-editor of numerous titles including Literacy, Lives and Learning (2007, Routledge).

Mary Hamilton is Professor of Adult Learning and Literacy and Associate Director of the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University, UK. She is the author of Literacy and the Politics of Representation (forthcoming, Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by David Bloome. Preface. Part I 1. Understanding Literacy as
Social Practice 2. Locating Literacies in Time and Space: (1) A history of
literacy in Lancaster 3. Locating Literacies in Time and Space: (2)
Lancaster Today 4. Ethnography in Practice Part II 5. How They Have Fared
in Education: Harry's Literacy Practices 6. Getting Things Done in the
Community: Shirley's Literacy Practices 7. Living a Local Life: June's
Literacy Practices 8. Leisure and Pleasure: Cliff's Literacy Practices
Part III 9. Everyday Literacies: (1) The Range of Practices 10. Everyday
Literacies: (2)the Patterning of Practices 11. Home, Learning and Education
12. The Web of Literacies in Local Organisations 13. Becoming Expert:
Literacy and Sense-making 14. Vernacular Literacies 15. Afterword