Literacies, Global and Local
1st Edition
Published on 21. May 2008
VII, 218 pages
978-90-272-9118-9 (ISBN)
Description
The articles collected in this volume draw on or relate to a body of work that has become known as the 'New Literacy Studies' (NLS), which studies literacy as situated semiotic practices that vary across sites in specific ways that are socially shaped. The collection offers a body of empirically and theoretically based papers on literacy ethnography as well as providing engagements with critical issues around literacy and education. The articles offer complementary perspectives on research and theory in literacy studies and include research perspectives from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, as well as North and South America. The researchers are all concerned to take the work of the New Literacy Studies further by expanding on its conceptual resources and research sites.
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- Literacies, Global and Local
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. Literacy and power
- 1. Globalised literacy education
- The argument: 'Export-quality literacy'?
- Inheriting 'compact' concepts
- Three kinds of 'translucence'
- The 'mannerisms and debris' of literacy learning and teaching
- Conclusions
- References
- 2. To seem and to feel
- Introduction
- Conceptual framework
- Situated identities and literacy practices
- The role of cultural artefacts in performing literacy
- Using cultural artefacts to do literacy in Brazil
- Methods
- Data management and analysis
- Relevant social and cultural contexts
- Material cultural artefacts
- Non-physical cultural artefacts
- Graça
- Eunisa
- Discussion and implications
- References
- 3. Being a new capitalist mother
- Introduction
- Bridges and stepping stones: The path to qualifications
- Learning to be reflexive
- Doing is studying
- Presences and absences
- Disappearing the local community
- Introducing speaking
- Being a good mother
- Conclusion
- References
- Part II. Local and global
- 4. Habitus in children's multimodal text-making
- Introduction
- The studies
- Habitus in texts
- Example 1: The prayer bead map
- Example 2: May's plan of her house
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- References
- 5. Fateful literacy
- From love to development - and back again
- The costs and benefits of literacy
- Durga Kumari's two love letter correspondences
- Literacy practices and development discourses
- Conclusion
- References
- 6. Children's games as local semiotic play
- Children play
- Making sense in Khwezi Park
- Playing by the rules
- Making meaning across social semiotic domains
- Children's multiple social worlds
- 'Local' resources for meaning-making
- Language and musicality
- A social practices perspective on early childhood literacy learning
- References
- Part III. Research tools
- 7. Learning in semiotic domains
- References
- 8. Assembling "Skills for Life"
- Introduction: The treachery of translation
- So what's 'new'?
- Generalized symmetry and relational materialism
- The four moments of translation
- The prince and the pauper: Where does the observer stand?
- Conclusion
- References
- Part IV. Literacy practices in time and space
- 9. Elite or powerful literacies?
- Introduction: Literacy practices in time and space
- Literacy in time (1): Historical perspectives
- Literacy in time (2): Fictional perspectives
- Key constructs for the study of literacy
- Synopses of the novels
- Institutions/discourses in Bleak House and Mary Barton
- Elite literacy practices, register and exclusion
- Literacy events in Bleak House and Mary Barton
- Texts and genres
- Material culture of literacy
- From elite literacies to powerful literacies?
- Literacy practices in fictional texts
- In conclusion: Fictional texts as evidence of literacy practices?
- Texts
- References
- 10. Beyond "here's a culture, here's a literacy"
- Literacy as a 'trans-'phenomenon
- Literacy and the asymmetry of power
- Vision
- Vision and Amerindian literacies
- Vision, knowledge and indigenous perspectivism
- Vision and indigenous literacy
- Vision, the Western cosmovision of modernity and literacy
- 'Trans-'border crossings, cosmovisions and the colonial difference
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- The AILA Applied Linguistics Series
