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1 online resource (287 pages) |
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The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Section 1. Literacies at work; Chapter 1. Literacy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the first democratic national elections in South Africa; Chapter 2. Literacy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape; Chapter 3. Literacy and communication in a Cape factory; Chapter 4. Communicative practices of the service staff of a school |
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Section 2. Mediating literaciesChapter 5. Literacy mediation and social identity in Newtown, Eastern Cape; Chapter 6. Cultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies: land struggles in Namaqualand's Coloured reserves; Chapter 7. Literacy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South; Chapter 8. 'We can all sing, but we can't all talk': literacy brokers and tsotsi gangsters in a Cape Town shantytown; Section 3. Contextualising literacies: policy lessons; Chapter 9. Literacy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity: Khayelitshan ways of knowing |
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Chapter 10. 'We are waiting/this is our home': literacy and the search for resources in the rural Eastern CapeChapter 11. Taking literacy for a ride -- reading andwriting in the taxi industry; Chapter 12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula; Afterword; References; Index |
| Summary |
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 ele |
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Print version record |
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Literacy -- Social aspects -- South Africa
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Adult education -- Social aspects -- South Africa
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Education and state -- South Africa
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Popular education -- South Africa
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Adult education -- Social aspects
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Education and state
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Literacy -- Social aspects
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Popular education
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Breier, Mignonne
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Street, Brian
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| ISBN |
9789027282996 |
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9027282994 |
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1283222361 |
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9781283222365 |
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