Knowledge, Culture and Power - International Perspectives on Literacy As Policy and Practice

Informationen zum Autor Anthony R. Welch, Peter Freebody Klappentext First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung This work concerns the issues that comprise the broad field of literacy education, for example, discourses about childhood, socio-economic order and political and ideological contingencies. Analyses of literacy education from a number of different countries and cultures are included. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - explanations of the current international literacy crises, A.R. Welch and P. Freebody; literacy strategies - a view from the International Literacy Year Secretatiat of UNESCO, L.J. Limage; the pen and the sword - literacy, education and the revolution of Kurdistan, A. Hassampour; aboriginal education in Northern Australia - a case study of literacy policies and practices, C. Walton; rights and expectations in an Age of Debt Crisis - literacy and integral human development in Papua New Guinea, N. Ahai and N. Faraclas; literacy and primary education in India, K. Kumar; adult literacy in Nicaragua 1979-90, C. Lankshear; literacy and the dynamics of language planning - the dynamics of Singapore, A. Kwan-Terry and J. Kwan-Terry; the troubled text - history and language in American university writing programmes, J. Collins; workplace literacy in Australia - competing agendas, P. O'Connor; individualisation and domestication in current literacy debates in Australia, P. Freebody and A.R. Welch.

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• Authors: R. Welch Anthony R. Welch, A Anthony R. Welch University of Sydney, Peter Freebody, Anthony Freebody Welch, Anthony R Welch, Anthony R. Welch, Anthony R. Freebody Welch
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.1992
• EAN: 9781850008347
• ISBN: 978-1-85000-834-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Liter
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day