Research Catalog

Title

Urban literacy : communication, identity, and learning in development contexts / edited by Alan Rogers.

Publication

Hamburg, Germany : UNESCO Institute for Education, ©2005.

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Additional Authors

• Rogers, Alan, 1933-
• Unesco Institute for Education.

Description

viii, 312 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Over 800 million adults worldwide, two thirds of them women, are unable to reap the benefits of literate expression. In this publication, the author aims to dispel the notion that illiteracy is principally confined to rural areas, which has for many years been the main focus of development programs. Through a series of case studies and analysis this book provides a valuable insight into what literacy can mean in an urban setting and explores the many ways it is used to enhance the lives of individuals. It highlights the need for greater understanding of the diversity of literacy learning and explores the practical issues in providing assistance to those who aspire to improve their literacy skills.--Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

Urban literacy

Subject

• Education, Urban > Social aspects > Developing countries > Case studies
• Literacy > Social aspects > Developing countries > Case studies
• Learning > Social aspects > Developing countries > Case studies
• Alfabetización > Aspectos sociales > Países en desarrollo
• Alfabetización > Países en desarrollo
• Education, Urban > Social aspects
• Learning > Social aspects
• Literacy > Social aspects
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Großstadt
• Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
• Unterricht
• Educação de jovens e adultos
• Comunidade urbana (educação;aspectos sociais)
• Países em desenvolvimento
• Educação
• Developing countries

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Setting the scene. Foreword / S. Yusuf Shah -- Introduction : the international urban literacies project / Alan Rogers -- Urban people nad urban literacies : some Indian experiences / Chander J. Daswani -- II. Literacy and the urban-rural divide. Literacy-communication, urbanisation-development : uneven development in India / Denzil Saldanha -- Language and mass literacy : some comparative rural-urban contexts / Ajay Kumar -- Applying new literacy studies to numeracy / Brian Street -- III. Literacy practices in urban contexts. Disorder of discourses : 'insider' and 'outsider' literacy practices in a police station / Moeain Arend -- Marginality and the literacy of space creation : community building, relocation and social development in an urban poor community in the Philippines / Maria Luisa Canieso-Doronila and Cecilia Cuevas-Sipin -- Contrasting urban literacies in two socio-economically differentiated neighbourhoods in Brasil / Guilherme Rios -- Moment by moment : texts, movement and participation / Catherine Kell -- IV. Literacy teaching and learning in urban contexts. Mother to daughters, pueblo to cuidad : women's identity shifts to the construction of a literate self / Judy Kalman -- Reading the bible and shoping on credit : literacy practices and literacy learning in a township of Windhoek, Namibia / Uta Papen -- Workplace literacy in Botswana : a critical analysis / Tonic Maruatona -- Urban literacies : the intervention of the literacy shop approach in Bodija Market, Ibadan, Nigeria / Rashid Aderinoye and Alan Rogers -- V. Some conclusions. Adult literacy in urban contexts : some general conclusions / Alan Rogers.

ISBN

• 9282011453
• 9789282011454

OCLC

• ocm61725621
• 61725621
• SCSB-8920399

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library