Literacy And The Politics Of Writing

Author : Nigel Wheale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134886659
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing and Society written by Nigel Wheale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production. This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses: * the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain * structures of patronage and censorship * the fundamental role of the publishing industry * the relation between elite literary and popular cultures * and the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.

Author : Albertine Gaur
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 9781841508825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy and the Politics of Writing written by Albertine Gaur and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Writing is traditionally discussed as a product of individual intellectual achievement. The refreshing approach of this book gives the reader an insight into the place of writing as an essential part of the political infrastructure of a society. As ancient writings continue to be discovered and deciphered, it is becoming clear that long-held theories of writing development have rested more on speculation than on actual proof. However, no history of writing has adequately answered these questions nor brought to the subject the breadth of scope that this book achieves.

Author : Romy Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135101833
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Writing written by Romy Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing matters: it plays a key role in the circulation of ideas in society and has a direct impact on the development of democracy. But only a few get to do the kind of writing that most influence this development. The Politics of Writing examines writing as a social practice. The authors draw on critical linguistics, cultural studies and literacy studies, as they explore and analyse: * the social context in which writing is embedded * the processes and practices of writing * the purposes of writing * the reader-writer relationship * issues of writer identity. They challenge current notions of 'correctness' and argue for a more democratic pedagogy as part of the answer to the inequitable distribution of the right to write.

Author : Robert Pattison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195365267
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Literacy written by Robert Pattison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984-02-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectually and morally acute, vibrantly alive ... parents, teachers or legislators who miss this richly clarifying discourse on the contemporary politics of literacy deserve to sit in the corner for a week.

Author : Albertine Gaur
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy and the Politics of Writing written by Albertine Gaur and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all proper forms of writing must necessarily progress. This book shows that the primary purpose of writing is the ability to store and transmit information, information essential to the social, economical and political survival of a particular group. Writing, in whatever form, allows the individual the interact with the group, to acquire an amount of knowledge that far outweighs the scope of memory (oral traditions), and to be free to manipulate this knowledge and arrive at new conclusion. Providing a quick and easy entrance to information related to the subject, the volume contains a network of references leading the reader towards further information, and most entries are listed with bibliographical notes.

Author : Patrick Shannon
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Political written by Patrick Shannon and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Hoyles
Publisher : Writers & Readers Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780904613285
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Literacy written by Martin Hoyles and published by Writers & Readers Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Fox
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Uses of Writing written by Thomas Fox and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how a political and social theory of writing can inform pedagogy, including an analysis of how students' educational histories limit teacher and student roles, and how we might work to enlarge both. Through a critique of ethnography and an exploration of Friere's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the author develops an interactive theory of teaching writing. In three central chapters, the volume treats gender, class and race issues in the teaching of writing by examining case studies of freshman writers. Within the case studies, the author shows how an interactive pedagogy helps students see how socially-held values, such as beauty, objectivity, upward mobility, and assimilation deeply affect how students write. The case studies give a sense of actuality to the author's ideas. Finally, the author argues that interpretation should replace evaluation as the central activity of writing courses.

Author : Francis Cody
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801469015
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Light of Knowledge written by Francis Cody and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody’s ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right. The Light of Knowledge is set primarily in the rural district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, and it is about activism among laboring women from marginalized castes who have been particularly active as learners and volunteers in the movement. In their endeavors to remake the Tamil countryside through literacy activism, workers in the movement found that their own understanding of the politics of writing and Enlightenment was often transformed as they encountered vastly different notions of language and imaginations of social order. Indeed, while activists of the movement successfully mobilized large numbers of rural women, they did so through logics that often pushed against the very Enlightenment rationality they hoped to foster. Offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at an increasingly important area of social and political activism, The Light of Knowledge brings tools of linguistic anthropology to engage with critical social theories of the postcolonial state.

Author : W. Ross Winterowd
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195067897
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture and Politics of Literacy written by W. Ross Winterowd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history and politics of literacy, tells how people learn to read and why some don't, and shows how the current educational methods can be improved