Writing Ourselves Mass-Observation and Literacy Practices

Name: Writing Ourselves Mass-Observation and Literacy Practices
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ISBN: 9781572732780

ISBN-10: 1572732784

ISBN-13: 9781572732780

Edition: 2000

Authors: Dorothy Sheridan, etc., Brian Street, David Bloome

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The authors of this book analyze the Mass-Observation Project as a way of understanding the nature of writing and the social conditions within which people write, the social purposes they use writing for, and how writing fits in with their life histories, all of which define writing itself. The authors are also interested in how writing is implicated in power relations, and how it is used to establish identities and to transform social situations and relationships. The Mass-Observation Project is a unique institutional context for writing. From the beginning, in Britain, the project involved ordinary people observing and writing about life and collecting those writings for future use by…

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Hampton Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Brian V. Street is Professor of Language in Education in the School of Education at King's College, London University and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He undertook anthropological fieldwork in Iran during the 1970s, and has since worked in the USA, Britain, and S. Africa.Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.

Foreword
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Introduction: Literacy Theory and Mass-Observation	p. 1
An Historical Context of Mass-Observation
Mass Observation from 1937 to 1981	p. 21
The Historical Origins: Social and Political Contexts	p. 21
The Recruitment of the Panel of Volunteers	p. 32
The Years Between 1950 and 1980	p. 38
The Rehabilitation of Mass-Observation	p. 39
Mass-Observation Revived: Writing Britain	p. 43
The Re-Launch	p. 43
Publicity and Funds, 1981-85	p. 47
After the Hiatus, From 1986	p. 51
How People Join Mass-Observation: Advertising and Recruitment	p. 52
Becoming a Mass-Observer	p. 60
The Directives	p. 64
Organisation and Classification of Data	p. 70
Changes and Developments	p. 71
Connections with Other Projects	p. 73
The Contemporary Mass-Observation Project and the Original Mass-Observation	p. 73
Mass-Observation and Anthropology	p. 79
British Anthropology in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 80
Mass-Observation as Anthropology at Home	p. 82
Malinowski and Mass-Observation	p. 85
Firth and Mass-Observation	p. 88
Limitations of the Anthropologists' Critiques	p. 93
Pocock and Mass-Observation	p. 95
Contemporary Anthropology: The Reflexive Turn	p. 103
Mass-Observation as Case Studies	p. 106
Mass-Observation as Literacy Practices	p. 108
Dialogues and Writing Practices
Framing the Dialogues: Literary Practices	p. 119
Reading Mass-Observation and the Nature of Knowledge	p. 121
Gathering, Analysing and Writing Up the Data	p. 127
Constructing the Dialogues	p. 132
Final Comments on Constructing Dialogues	p. 134
Dialogues About Literacy Practices and the Mass-Observation Project	p. 137
Ordinary People Writing
The Uses of Writing	p. 213
Power, Personhood and Crossings	p. 237
Writing Ourselves and Writing Britain	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 293
Bibliography of Original Mass-Observation Books	p. 305
Recent Anthologies and Edited Material	p. 307
Mass-Observation Occasional Papers Series	p. 309
About the Mass-Observation Archive	p. 313
Lists of Topics Covered in Directives Since 1981	p. 315
Sample Directives	p. 319
Introductory Information for New Recruits	p. 331
Pseudonyms and Numbers of Correspondents Cited	p. 335
The Spring Directive 1991	p. 337
Interview Guidance Sheet	p. 343
Author Index	p. 347
Subject Index	p. 351
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