Situated Literacies - Theorising Reading and Writing in Context (Hardcover)

Literacies are situated. All uses of written language can be seen as located in particular times and places. Equally, all literate activity is indicative of broader social practices. This text is a varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices. Detailed ethnographic studies of a wide variety of specific situations, all involving real texts and lived practices, are balanced with general claims about the nature of literacy.;Contributors address a coherent set of issues: the visual and material aspects of literacy; concepts of time and space in relation to literacy; the functions of literacies in shaping and sustaining identities in communities of practice; the relationship between texts and the practices associated with their use; and the role of discourse analysis on literacy studies. Together these studies, along with a forward by Denny Taylor, make a contribution to understanding the ways in which literary practices are part of a broader social processes and suggest directions for the further

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Literacies
Release date:	October 1999
First published:	2000
Editors:	David Barton • Mary Hamilton • Roz Ivanic
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	238
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-20670-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject
LSN:	0-415-20670-7
Barcode:	9780415206709

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