Adult Literacy and Development: Stories from the Field
by Alan Rogers and Brian Street Niace Publications- Pub Date:
- 06/2012
- ISBN:
- 9781862015746
- Format:
- Pbk 256 pages
- Price:
- AU$53.95 NZ$66.36
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Of great importance for international practitioners, students, researchers, and policy makers alike, this book brings together adult learning and anthropology and introduces a picture of the world of adult literacy today. Sharing the authors' extensive experiences gained during more than twenty years of work on adult literacy and numeracy in development contexts, with emphasis on the value of case studies, the book presents literacy and numeracy as social practices. Rogers and Street explore relationships between the teaching and learning of literacy and numeracy, and literacy practices in daily life. Implications for practice and policy are connected to the theoretical and research directions in the field internationally, and discussions of ethnography, literacy, learning and development issues are woven through the text.
Introduction. Part I: Literacy and learning in everyday life and in learning programmes. Chapter 1. The challenges faced to the authors' own assumptions about learning and literacy; Chapter 2. A survey of current research into literacy and numeracy; Chapter 3. Lessons to be drawn from the research. Part II: Adult literacy and learning programmes. Chapter 4. Formal adult literacy programmes; Chapter 5. Embedded literacy learning; Chapter 6. The literacy environment. Conclusion: Implications for policy and practice
