Urban literacy : communication, identity, and learning in development contexts / edited by Alan Rogers.
Over 800 million adults worldwide, two thirds of them women, are unable to reap the benefits of literate expression. In this publication, the author aims to dispel the notion that illiteracy is principally confined to rural areas, which has for many years been the main focus of development programs....
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Hamburg, Germany :
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Setting the scene. Forward / S. Yusuf Shah
- The International Urban Literacies Project / Alan Rogers
- Urban People and Urban Literacies : some Indian experiences / Chander J. Daswani
- pt. 2. Literacy and the urban-rural divide. Literacy-communication, urbanisation-development : uneven development in India / Denzil Saldanha
- Language and mass literacy : some comparative rural-urban contexts / Ajay Kumar
- Applying new literacy studies to numeracy as social practice / Brian Street
- pt. 3. Literacy practices in urban contexts. Disorder of discourses : 'insider' and 'outsider' literacy practices in a police station on the Cape Flats, South Africa / Moeain Arend
- Marginality and the literacy of space creation : community building, relocation and social development in an urban poor commmunity in the Philippines / Maria Luisa Canieso-Doronila and Cecilia Cuevas-Sipin
- Contrasting urban literacies in two socio-economically differentiated neighbourhoods in Brazil / Guilherme Rios
- Moment by moement : texts, movement and participation / Catherine Kell
- pt. 4. Literacy teaching and learning in urban contexts. Mothers to daughters, Pueblo to Ciudad : women's identity shifts in the construction of a literate self / Judy Kalman
- Reading the Bible and shopping on credit : literacy practices and literacy learning on a township of Windhoek, Nambia / Uta Papen
- Workplace literacy in Botswana : a critical analysis / Tonic Maruatona
- Urban literacies : the intervention of the literacy shop approach in Bodija Market, Ibadan, Nigeria / Rashid Aderinoye and Alan Rogers
- pt. 5. Some conclusions. Adult literacy in urban contexts : some general conclusions / Alan Rogers.