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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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