Literacy and Literacies Texts, Power, and Identity

Name: Literacy and Literacies Texts, Power, and Identity
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ISBN: 9780521596619

ISBN-10: 0521596610

ISBN-13: 9780521596619

Edition: 2003

Authors: James Collins, Richard Blot, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Judith Irvine, Joel Kuipers

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The authors present a new account of literacy & its relation to power. They discuss the role of literacies in the formation of class, gender, & ethnic identity & challenge received assumptions about literacy, intellectual development & social progress.

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/8/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of figures


Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgements



Introduction: texts, power and identity



The literacy thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development and self



Situated approaches to the literacy debate



Literacies and power in modern nation states: Euro-American lessons



Literacies and identity formation: American cases



Literacy, power and identity: colonial legacies and indigenous transformations



Conclusion: literacy lessons - beginnings, ends and implications


Notes


References


Index