Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and IdentityLiteracy and Literacies is a new and engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a new synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories, and exploring the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official versus popular literacies. Collins and Blot offer indepth critical discussion of particular cases and discuss the role of literacies in the formation of class, gender, and ethnic identity. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
INTRODUCTION TEXTS POWER AND IDENTITY | 1 |
THE LITERACY THESIS VEXED QUESTIONS OF RATIONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND SELF | 9 |
SITUATED APPROACHES TO THE LITERACY DEBATE | 34 |
LITERACIES AND POWER IN MODERN NATION STATES EUROAMERICAN LESSONS | 67 |
LITERACIES AND IDENTITY FORMATION AMERICAN CASES | 99 |
LITERACY POWER AND IDENTITY COLONIAL LEGACIES AND INDIGENOUS TRANSFORMATIONS | 121 |
CONCLUSION LITERACY LESSONS BEGINNINGS ENDS AND IMPLICATIONS | 155 |
NOTES | 177 |
| 187 | |
| 208 | |
Other editions - View all
Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity James Collins,Richard K. Blot No preview available - 2003 |
Common terms and phrases
activities adults alphabetic American analysis argues argument authority become beginning called central century chapter Christian civilization claims colonial complex conception concern consequences contemporary context critical cultural debate discourse discussion distinction documents dominant early economy efforts emerged emphasis English ethnographic example follows Goody groups Heath historical human identity important Indians indigenous individual inscription institutions interaction involved issue knowledge language later learned linguistic literacy practices literate lives means native nature noted official oral original particular performance period political positions present provides questions reading and writing reason record relation religious representation response ritual sense significant situated skills social society speaking stories Street struggle teachers thesis thinking tion Tolowa Trackton tradition transformation understand University voice Western women written
References to this book
Bibliographic information
| Title | Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity Issue 22 of Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language |
| Authors | James Collins, Richard Blot |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521596610, 9780521596619 |
| Length | 217 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |