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Characterizing literacy : a study of Western and Indian literacy experiences / R. Narasimhan.

By:

Narasimhan, Rangaswamy [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2004Description: 197 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0761998292
9780761998297

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

302.2244 22

LOC classification:

LC149 .N32 2004

Contents:

Foreword / Satish Saberwal -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Characterizing Literacy -- 3. The Oral Dimension in Indian Tradition -- 4. Literacy and Schooling -- 5. Open Problems: Indian Perspective.

Review: "The author maintains that traditional oral practices may often be actually underpinned by literacy and argues that systematic work needs to be undertaken to fully understand this phenomenon. To take into account these wider relationships between orality and literacy, the author introduces a revised characterization of literacy defining it as the capacity for reflective thinking, supported by technology. Since this approach impacts on education, the author also assesses methods and practices of schooling and of teaching literacy." "A pioneering exploration of important issues that have so far been largely ignored, this important book will prove to be of value to literacy scholars and practitioners educationists and students as well as teachers of sociology and psychology."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index.

Foreword / Satish Saberwal -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Characterizing Literacy -- 3. The Oral Dimension in Indian Tradition -- 4. Literacy and Schooling -- 5. Open Problems: Indian Perspective.

"The author maintains that traditional oral practices may often be actually underpinned by literacy and argues that systematic work needs to be undertaken to fully understand this phenomenon. To take into account these wider relationships between orality and literacy, the author introduces a revised characterization of literacy defining it as the capacity for reflective thinking, supported by technology. Since this approach impacts on education, the author also assesses methods and practices of schooling and of teaching literacy." "A pioneering exploration of important issues that have so far been largely ignored, this important book will prove to be of value to literacy scholars and practitioners educationists and students as well as teachers of sociology and psychology."--BOOK JACKET.

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