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Powerful literacies
- Editors:
- CROWTHER Jim, HAMILTON Mary, TETT Lyn
- Publisher:
- National Organisation for Adult Learning
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 200p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Literacy is at the forefront of an agenda of social inclusion, participation and active citizenship. This book seeks to interrogate the ideas, assumptions and policies that inform literacy practice. Includes papers on: contexts for literacy work; the policy context; the role of literacy in people's lives; dyslexia and adult literacy; form filling as a social practice; literacy in South Africa; literacy for citizenship; literacy in Bangladesh; people with learning disabilities; empowering literacy learners and teachers; using Scots literacy in family work; challenges to sharing power in adult literacy programmes; and multiple literacies and bilingual workers in East London.