Literacy in the Lives of Working-Class Adults in Australia - Dominant versus Local Voices

Adopting a ''social practice'' approach to literacy research based on ethnographic methods, this book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults in Australia. It explores how groups of working-class adults can manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives by drawing on social networks of support. It is based on research conducted by the author over a forty-year career in adult literacy education, featuring the voices of varied adult groups, including: prisoners, the long-term unemployed, local council workers, manufacturing workers, adult literacy students, marginalised young people, vocational students, and patients living with a chronic illness (type 2 diabetes). Each chapter explains how dominant society views these adult groups in relation to literacy, and provides a qualitative examination at the local level of how members of these groups manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives.>

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• Authors: Stephen Black
• Assisted by: Anna Robinson-Pant (Editor), Alan Rogers (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9781350378117
• ISBN: 978-1-350-37811-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, Literacy, Language teaching theory and methods, Adult education, continuous learning, Relating to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)