The social uses of literacy : theory and practice in contemporary South Africa
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書誌事項
The social uses of literacy : theory and practice in contemporary South Africa
(Studies in written language and literacy, v. 4)
Sached Books , J. Benjamins, 1996
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  奈良
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  愛媛
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注記
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal education, but as social practices embedded in specific contexts, discourses and positions. What this means is made clear through a series of fine-grained accounts of social uses and meanings of literacy in contexts ranging from the taxi industry in Cape Town, to family farms, urban settlements and displacement sites, rural land holdings, and various sites during the 1994 elections, and among different sectors of South African society, Black, Colored and White.
Since the view of literacy presented here is so dependent on context, the book provides not only descriptions of literacy practices but also rich insights into the complexity of everyday social life in contemporary South Africa at a major point of transition. It can be read as a concrete way of understanding the emergence of the New South Africa as it appears to actors on the ground, focused through attention to one central feature of contemporary life - the uses and meanings of literacy.
"Using fascinating and carefully documented case-study material, this book raises vital questions about literacy and illiteracy, and about adult education. Above all, it questions the efficacy of any literacy programme which fails to acknowledge the many ways in which uneducated and so called 'illiterate' people already use reading, writing and numeracy in their everyday lives." Jenny Maybin, The Open University, Milton Keynes
目次
- 1. Preface (by Street, Brian)
- 2. Introduction (by Prinsloo, Mastin)
- 3. Section 1: Literacies at work
- 4. 1. Literacy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the firstdemocratic national elections in South Africa (by Prinsloo, Mastin)
- 5. 2. Literacy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape (by Gibson, Diana)
- 6. 3. Literacy and communication in a Cape factory (by Breier, Mignonne)
- 7. 4. Communicative practices of the service staff of a school (by Watters, Kathy)
- 8. Section 2: Mediating literacies
- 9. 5. Literacy mediation and social identity in Newton, Easter Cape (by Malan, Liezl)
- 10. 6. Cultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies: Land struggles inNamaqualand's Coloured reserves (by Robins, Steven)
- 11. 7. Literacy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South (by Malan, Liezl)
- 12. 8. 'We can all sing, but we can't all talk': Literacy brokers and tsotsi gangstersin a Cape Town shantytown (by China, Ammon)
- 13. Section 3: Contextualising literacies: policy lessons
- 14. 9. Literacy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity: Khayelitshan ways of knowing (by Mpoyiya, Phumza)
- 15. 10. "We are waiting/ this is our home': Literacy and the search for ressources in the ruralEastern Cape (by McEwan, M.J.)
- 16. 11. Taking literacy for a ride - reading and writing in the taxi industry (by Breier, Mignonne)
- 17. 12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula (by Kell, Catherine)
- 18. Afterword (by Morphet, Tony)
- 19. References
- 20. Index
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