Book: Literacy and societal development

[McGinnis, Scott]

Title: The Making of Literate Societies 
                       
Publication Year: 2001
                       
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers 
           http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/
                       
Book URL: http://www.blackwellpub.com/asp/book.asp?ref=0631227431
                       
 
Editor: DAVID R OLSON  
Translator: NANCY  TORRANCE 
                               
 
Paperback: ISBN: 0631227431, Pages: 368, Price: $34.95
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Abstract:
 
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.
 
Lingfield(s): Applied Linguistics
                        
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)
 
                       
 
  
 
                                    
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