Literacy in the Lives of Working-Class Adults in Australia (eBook)

Dominant versus Local Voices

Stephen Black (Autor)

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2023
240 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-350-37812-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Adopting a 'social practice' approach to literacy research based on ethnographic methods, this book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults in Australia. It explores how groups of working-class adults can manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives by drawing on social networks of support. It is based on research conducted by the author over a forty-year career in adult literacy education, featuring the voices of varied adult groups, including: prisoners, the long-term unemployed, local council workers, manufacturing workers, adult literacy students, marginalised young people, vocational students, and patients living with a chronic illness (type 2 diabetes). Each chapter explains how dominant society views these adult groups in relation to literacy, and provides a qualitative examination at the local level of how members of these groups manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• ISBN-10: 1-350-37812-7 / 1350378127
• ISBN-13: 978-1-350-37812-4 / 9781350378124