Local Literacies Reading and Writing in One Community

Name: Local Literacies Reading and Writing in One Community
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ISBN: 9780415171502

ISBN-10: 0415171504

ISBN-13: 9780415171502

Edition: 1998

Authors: David Barton, Mary Hamilton

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With Local Literacies, David Barton and Mary Hamilton offer a unique study of everyday reading and writing. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community, they analyse how literacy is used in people's everyday lives.

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/7/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English







Understanding literacy as social practice



Locating literacies in time and space



A history of literacy in Lancaster



Locating literacies in time and space



Lancaster today



Ethnography in practice






How they've fared in education: Harry's literacy practices



Getting things done in the community: Shirley's literacy practices



Living a local life: June's literacy practices



Leisure and pleasure: Cliff's literacy practices






Everyday literacies



The range of practices



Everyday literacies



The patterning of practices



Home, learning and education



The web of literacies in local organisations



Becoming Expert: Literacy and Sense making



Vernacular literacies



Afterword


Appendices


Index