Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective.

Offers a detailed examination of theories about literacy developed by different academic disciplines and proposes an "ideological" model of literacy.

This international collection includes case studies from: Peru, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, Mali, Nepal, Iran, Eritrea, Ghana.

This frontline volume contributes to the social study of education in general and literacy in particular by bringing together in a new way the traditions of language, ethnography, and education.

Keeping language and literacy the central concern, this volume offers practical ways for ethnographers to sustain their attention to a constant comparative perspective and to patterns of co-occurrence in language structures, uses, and ...

The authors of this book analyze the Mass-Observation Project as a way of understanding the nature of writing and the social conditions within which people write, the social purposes they use writing for, and how writing fits in with their ...

This is related to reform movements in the UK, the US and other countries aimed at modernising primary (elementary) school mathematics curricula.

This book will be of interest to those studying 19th century literature.

Literacy is a comprehensive textbook which provides students and researchers with support for advanced study of the topic.