Literacy and literacies : texts, power, and identity /

Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories, and exploring the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official ver...

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Main Authors: Collins, James, 1952- (Author), Blot, Richard K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; 22.
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505 0 0 |g Introduction:  |t texts, power and identity --  |t The literary thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development, and self --  |t Situated approaches to the literacy debate --  |t Literacies and power in modern nation states: EuroAmerican lessons --  |t Literacies and identity formation: American cases --  |t Literacy, power and identity: colonial legacies and indigenous transformations --  |t Conclusion: Literacy lessons: beginnings, ends, and implications. 
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