LITERACY & LITERACIES (Adobe Reader) ebook download James, Blot, Richard Collins

Literacy and Literacies

Literacy and Literacies is a new and engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a new synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories, and exploring the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official versus popular literacies. Collins and Blot offer indepth critical discussion of particular cases and discuss the role of literacies in the formation of class, gender, and ethnic identity. Through their analysis of two domains - those of literacies and power, and of literacies and subjectivity - they challenge received assumptions about literacy, intellectual development and social progress and argue that neither 'universalist' nor 'particularist' accounts offer satisfactory approaches to the phenomenon. This is the first sustained exploration of the domain of power in relation to literacy. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in anthropology, linguistics, literacy studies and history.

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Title of ebook: Literacy and Literacies
ISBN: 9780511059605
parent-ISBN: 9780521593564
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1818 kb
Pages: 238
Published: 05-1999
Released online for download: 05-07-1999
Author of eBook: Collins, James
Author of eBook: Blot, Richard

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