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Local literacies : reading and writing in one community / David Barton and Mary Hamilton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998Description: xviii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415171490
  • 9780415171496
  • 0415171504
  • 9780415171502
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.22440942769 21
LOC classification:
  • LC156.G72 E53 1998
Contents:
List of asides -- List of figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Understanding literacy as social practice -- 2. Locating literacies in time and space: (1) a history of literacy in Lancaster -- 3. Locating literacies in time and space: (2) Lancaster today -- 4. Ethnography in practice -- 5. How they've fared in education: Harry's literacy practices -- 6. Getting things done in the community: Shirley's literacy practices -- 7. Living a local life: June's literacy practices -- 8. Leisure and pleasure: Cliff's literacy practices -- 9. Everyday literacies: (1) the range of practices -- 10. Everyday literacies: (2) the patterning of practices -- 11. Home, learning and education -- 12. The web of literacies in local organisations -- 13. Becoming expert: literacy and sense making -- 14. Vernacular literacies -- 15. Afterword -- App. 1. People interviewed in the Literacy in the Community project -- App. 2. Topics covered in the Literacy in the Community interview -- App. 3. Metaphors for the research process -- App. 4. Research into practice -- Bibliography -- Index of informants -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-292) and index.

List of asides -- List of figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Understanding literacy as social practice -- 2. Locating literacies in time and space: (1) a history of literacy in Lancaster -- 3. Locating literacies in time and space: (2) Lancaster today -- 4. Ethnography in practice -- 5. How they've fared in education: Harry's literacy practices -- 6. Getting things done in the community: Shirley's literacy practices -- 7. Living a local life: June's literacy practices -- 8. Leisure and pleasure: Cliff's literacy practices -- 9. Everyday literacies: (1) the range of practices -- 10. Everyday literacies: (2) the patterning of practices -- 11. Home, learning and education -- 12. The web of literacies in local organisations -- 13. Becoming expert: literacy and sense making -- 14. Vernacular literacies -- 15. Afterword -- App. 1. People interviewed in the Literacy in the Community project -- App. 2. Topics covered in the Literacy in the Community interview -- App. 3. Metaphors for the research process -- App. 4. Research into practice -- Bibliography -- Index of informants -- Index.

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