The Making of Literate Societies - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0631227431 ISBN 13: 9780631227434

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2001

Riassunto

This volume provides a systematic analysis of the role of literacy in social development, and advances a set of directions that governments and other agencies should take in designing their literacy programmes.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull?autore

David R. Olson is University Professor and Professor of Applied Cognitive Science at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Nancy Torrance is Senior Research Officer at the International Centre for Educational Change at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance edited the Blackwell Handbook of Education and Human Development (Blackwell Publishers, 1995).

Dalla quarta di copertina

This volume highlights the role of literacy in social development and the directions that governments and other agencies should take in designing their literacy programmes. The contributors, who are field workers, educational psychologists, sociologists, policy-makers, and development studies scholars, discuss the direction of literacy policy with regard to developing countries and marginalized segments of developed ones.

The volume is divided into two major sections. The first examines literacy as a social practice in what have already become 'literate societies'. As this section makes clear, literacy development reflects both the intrinsic structure of the society and reshapes those activities and institutions around texts and other founding documents. The second part examines, through carefully chosen case studies, ongoing literacy projects, programmes and other initiatives in developing societies in Asia, Africa and Central and South America.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0631227431
• ISBN 13: 9780631227434
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 349
• Redattore: Olson David R., Torrance Nancy
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile