Literacy and social practice matters: an ethnographic perspective
Literacy is no longer understood as, simply, a set of cognitive skills a person has or lacks; teachers in adult education accept that literacy is a practice that occurs within a social and cultural context. The author demonstrates that when literacy is defined as a social practice, many Indigenous communities labelled as low-literate communities, could in fact be highly literate. The author proposes another way of thinking about adult literacy in the remote Indigenous context, by looking at what is happening rather than what is not happening. An ethnographic approach is used that considers lit ... Show more
Authors: Kral, Inge
Published: Springvale South, Victoria, Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council, 2013
Resource type: Article
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https://www.valbec.org.au/fineprint/archive/2013/fp_2013-02_(05)r.pdf#page=10
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