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Adult Literacy and Development: Stories from the Field
Author(s): Alan Rogers (Author), Brian Street (Author)
- Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
- Publication Date: 30 Jun. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 252 pages
- ISBN-10: 1862015740
- ISBN-13: 9781862015746
Book Description
This book draws upon the authors’ extensive experience in adult literacy promotion in many different countries of the developing world and in the West, as well as on the work of many others (both researchers and practitioners), to understand what literacy means in different contexts and to develop new ways in which the uses of literacy can be promoted. They advocate the use of ethnographic approaches to explore the nature of everyday literacy practices, especially those learned through informal learning. In seeking new ways of promoting literacy, they argue that the two fields of the informal learning of informal literacies and the formal learning of formal literacies can form an alliance – that each can build on the other to increase the literacy practices in everyday use. The book is brought to life with stories drawn from experience and is illustrated with photographs of adult literacy practices in different international contexts. It will appeal to all those concerned with adult literacy, including practitioners and policy makers, planners and trainers, and researchers and students in development and educational programs.
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About the Author
Alan Rogers, a previous Secretary General of the Commonwealth Association for the Education and Training of Adults, is a Visiting Professor at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia and at the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. Author of a number of books on adult education and international development, he has wide experience of working in many countries of Africa and Asia. Brian Street is Emeritus Professor of Language in Education at King s College, London and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He has a commitment to linking ethnographic-style research on the cultural dimension of language and literacy with contemporary practice in education and development. Over the past 25 years he has undertaken anthropological field research and been consultant to projects in these fields in countries such as Nepal, South Africa, India, USA and the UK. He has published 25 books, many co-authored or co-edited, and 120 scholarly papers.
