| The Making of Literate Societies Contributor(s): Olson, David R. (Editor), Torrance, Nancy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0631227431 ISBN-13: 9780631227434 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $80.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: This volume highlights the role of literacy in social development and the directions that governments and other agencies should take in designing their literacy programmes. The contributors, who are field workers, educational psychologists, sociologists, policy-makers, and development studies scholars, discuss the direction of literacy policy with regard to developing countries and marginalized segments of developed ones. The volume is divided into two major sections. The first examines literacy as a social practice in what have already become 'literate societies'. As this section makes clear, literacy development reflects both the intrinsic structure of the society and reshapes those activities and institutions around texts and other founding documents. The second part examines, through carefully chosen case studies, ongoing literacy projects, programmes and other initiatives in developing societies in Asia, Africa and Central and South America. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Literacy |
| Dewey: 302.224 |
| LCCN: 00065802 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.7" W x 9.84" (1.43 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume provides a systematic analysis of the role of literacy in social development, and advances a set of directions that governments and other agencies should take in designing their literacy programmes. |