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The making of literate societies
- Title
- The making of literate societies / edited by David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance.
- Publication
- Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.
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- Description
- xiii, 349 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- This volume, a result of a policy forum of educational psychologists, sociologists, policy makers and field workers, aims to highlight the role of literacy in social development and the directions that governments and other agencies should take in designing their literacy programmes. The volume is divided into two major sections. The first examines literacy as a social practice in "literate societies". As this section makes clear, literacy development reflects both the intrinsic structure of the society and reshapes those activities and institutions in the direction of producing cultures organized around texts. The second part examines, through carefully chosen case studies, ongoing literacy projects, programmes and other initiatives in developing societies in Asia, Africa and Central and South America.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Conceptualizing literacy as a personal skill and as a social practice / David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance -- The roles of literacy practices in the activities and institutions of developed and developing countries / Armin Triebel -- Societal literacy: writing culture and development / Georg Elwert -- Literacy in ancient Greece: functional literacy, oral education, and the development of a literate environment / Rosalind Thomas -- Literacy in Germany / Utz Maas -- Literacy in Japan: Kanji, Kana, Rōmaji, and bits / Florian Coulmas -- Language, literacy, the production and reproduction of knowledge, and the challenge of African development / Kwesi K. Prah -- Literacy and literature in indigenous languages in Benin and Burkina-Faso / Joseph Akoha -- Constructive interdependence: the response of a Senegalese community to the question of why become literate / Sonja Fagerberg-Diallo -- Literacy for Gonja and Birifor children in northern Ghana / Esther Goody and JoAnne Bennett -- Literacy and intercultural bilingual education in the Andes / Luis Enrique López -- The uses of orality and literacy in rural Mexico: tales from Xaltipan / Elsie Rockwell -- Developing a literate tradition in six marginal communities in the Philippines: interrelations of literacy, education, and social development / Maria Luisa Canieso Doronila -- Issues of literacy development in the Indian context / Chander Daswani -- Women and empowerment through literacy / Malini Ghose -- Literacy and social development: policy and implementation / Ingrid Jung and Adama Ouane.
- ISBN
- 0631227431
- 9780631227434
- 0631227423
- 9780631227427
- LCCN
- 00065802
- OCLC
- ocm45500304
- 45500304
- SCSB-8907365
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library