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Literacy for citizenship : gender and grassroots dynamics in Brazil
- Title
- Literacy for citizenship : gender and grassroots dynamics in Brazil / Nelly P. Stromquist.
- Author
- Stromquist, Nelly P.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | LC155.B72 S267 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 248 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book explores the involvement of nineteen women in an emancipatory literacy program conducted under the administration of Paulo Freire in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The study presents the classroom experiences of these women and the psychological, cognitive, and behavioral changes they undergo over a three-year period. Their low limited acquisition of literacy and their limited reading and writing practices are explored in the context of their circumscribed environment of poverty, living in families and societies that place definite boundaries and expectations regarding the everyday tasks they must perform. The analysis of the women's individual experiences is linked to a political and structural inquiry into the grassroots groups and the political party implementing the literacy program. In this way, contradictions, ambiguities, and antagonisms within and among social forces regarding literacy for social change are made transparent.
- Literacy acquisition is shown to be a process fraught with multiple exogenous demands that distance these women from the constant exposure to print required for literacy competence.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning
- Subject
- Geschichte 1989-1993
- Literacy programs > Brazil > São Paulo (State) > Case studies
- Women > Education > Social aspects > Brazil > São Paulo (State) > Case studies
- Popular education > Brazil > São Paulo (State) > Case studies
- Literacy programs
- Popular education
- Women > Education > Social aspects
- Alphabetisierung
- Sozialarbeit
- Fallstudiensammlung
- Brazil > São Paulo (State)
- Brasilien
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-243) and index.
- Contents
- I. Development, Literacy, and Women -- II. MOVA as a State-Civil Society Partnership -- III. Analytical and Methodological Considerations -- IV. Characteristics of Women Students in Literacy Programs -- V. The Classroom Experience in Literacy -- VI. Outcomes from Literacy -- VII. The Civil Society-State Connection -- VIII. MOVA through a Feminist Lens -- IX. Drawing Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 0791431657
- 9780791431658
- 0791431665
- 9780791431665
- 0585077908
- 9780585077901
- LCCN
- 96004548
- OCLC
- ocm34190910
- 34190910
- SCSB-2111665
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library