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Literacy and development : ethnographic perspectives

Author: Brian V Street
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Series: Literacies.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Cross-cultural studies
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Brian V Street
ISBN: 0415234506 9780415234504 0415234514 9780415234511
OCLC Number: 44669527
Description: x, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 --
BRIAN V. STREET --
PART I --
Literacy and development: ethnographic perspectives on schooling and adult education 19 --
Introduction 21 --
1 Literacy, schooling and development: views of Rabari nomads, India 27 --
CAROLINE DYER AND ARCHANA CHOKSI --
2 'Literacy --
your key to a better future'? Literacy, reconciliation and development in the National Literacy Programme in Namibia 40 --
UTA PAPEN --
3 More than just chanting: multilingual literacies, ideology and teaching methodologies in rural Eritrea 61 --
MARTHA WAGAR WRIGHT --
4 Betrayal and solidarity in ethnography on literacy: revisiting research homework in a north Indian village 78 --
PRITI CHOPRA --
PART II --
Literacy and development: local literacies and development agendas 93 --
Introduction 95 --
5 Literacies, languages and developments in Peruvian Amazonia 103 --
SHEILA AIKMAN --
6 Another language, another literacy? Practices in northern Ghana 121 --
PAT HERBERT AND CLINTON ROBINSON --
7 Literacy and the market: the economic uses of literacy among the peasantry in north-west Bangladesh 137 --
BRYAN MADDOX --
8 Women's literacy and health: can an ethnographic researcher find the links? 152 --
ANNA ROBINSON-PANT --
9 Household literacy environments as contexts for development in rural China 171 --
REGIE STITES --
10 Literacies, gender and power in rural Pakistan 188 --
SHIRIN ZUBAIR --
Afterword: problematising literacy and development 205 --
ALAN ROGERS --
Index 223.
Series Title: Literacies.
Responsibility: edited by Brian V. Street.
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