Knowledge, Culture And Power
International Perspectives On Literacy As Policy And Practice
1st Edition
Published on 30. November 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-1-85000-834-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
389 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85000-834-7 (9781850008347)
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Anthony R. Welch | Peter Freebody
Knowledge, Culture And Power
International Perspectives On Literacy As Policy And Practice
E-Book
08/2005
Routledge
€65.99
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Anthony R. Welch | Peter Freebody
Knowledge, Culture And Power
International Perspectives On Literacy As Policy And Practice
E-Book
08/2005
Routledge
€65.99
Available for download
Anthony R. Welch | Peter Freebody
Knowledge, Culture And Power
International Perspectives On Literacy As Policy And Practice
Book
10/1992
1st Edition
Routledge Falmer
€193.13
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Persons
Anthony R. Welch, Peter Freebody
Content
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.