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050 00 $aLC158.S6$bS63 1996
082 00 $a302.2/244/0968$220
245 04 $aThe social uses of literacy :$btheory and practice in contemporary South Africa /$cedited by Mastin Prinsloo and Mignonne Breier ; preface by Brian V. Street.
260 $aBertsham, South Africa :$bSached Books ;$aPhiladelphia :$bJ. Benjamins,$c[1996]
300 $avi, 279 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in written language and literacy ;$vv. no. 4
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274) and index.
505 20 $tPreface /$rBrian V. Street --$tIntroduction /$rMastin Prinsloo and Mignonne Breier --$gCh. 1.$tLiteracy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the first democratic national elections in South Africa /$rMastin Prinsloo and Steven Robins --$gCh. 2.$tLiteracy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape /$rDiana Gibson --$gCh. 3.$tLiteracy and communication in a Cape factory /$rMignonne Breier and Lynette Sait --$gCh. 4.$tCommunicative practices of the service staff of a school /$rKathy Watters --$gCh. 5.$tLiteracy mediation and social identity in Newtown, Eastern Cape /$rLiezl Malan --$gCh. 6.$tCultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies: land struggles in Namaqualand's Coloured reserves /$rSteven Robins --$gCh. 7.$tLiteracy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South /$rLiezl Malan --
505 80 $gCh. 8.$t'We can all sing, but we can't all talk': literacy brokers and tsotsi gangsters in a Cape Town shantytown /$rAmmon China and Steven Robins --$gCh. 9.$tLiteracy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity: Khayelitshan ways of knowing /$rPhumza Mpoyiya and Mastin Prinsloo --$gCh. 10.$t'We are waiting/this is our home': literacy and the search for resources in the rural Eastern Cape /$rM. J. McEwan and Liezl Malan --$gCh. 11.$tTaking literacy for a ride - reading and writing in the taxi industry /$rMignonne Breier, Matsepela Taetsane and Lynette Sait --$gCh. 12.$tLiteracy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula /$rCatherine Kell --$tAfterword /$rTony Morphet.
520 $aThe Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa challenges state-driven policy and provision in South Africa around the construction of a national delivery system for adult literacy that is part of a programme for Adult Basic Education. The implication is that many people who are the target of this system will be unwilling to participate at the entry point of literacy acquisition unless a reconceptualisation of the nature of literacy use by adults is made.
520 8 $aUsing fascinating and carefully documented case-study material, this book raises vital questions about literacy and illiteracy, and about adult education. Above all, it questions the efficacy of any literacy programme which fails to acknowledge the many ways in which uneducated and so called 'illiterate' people already use reading, writing and numeracy in their everyday lives.
520 8 $aDrawing on the theory and methods of the New Literacy Studies, this book reveals the complexity and diversity of uneducated people's uses of literacy. It raises important questions for policy makers everywhere about how adults should be taught in relation to their own experiences and needs, and about the value of mass-scale adult literacy programmes aimed at so called 'illiterates'.
650 0 $aLiteracy$xSocial aspects$zSouth Africa.
650 0 $aAdult education$xSocial aspects$zSouth Africa.
650 0 $aEducation and state$zSouth Africa.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102702
650 0 $aPopular education$zSouth Africa.
700 1 $aPrinsloo, Mastin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96028274
700 1 $aBreier, Mignonne.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96028279
830 0 $aStudies in written language and literacy ;$vv. 4.
852 00 $boff,glx$hLC158.S6$iS63 1996