Literacy and development : ethnographic perspectives /
Literacy and development : ethnographic perspectives /
edited by Brian V. Street.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
- x, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Literacies .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- BRIAN V. STREET --PART I -- Literacy and development: ethnographic perspectives on schooling and adult education 19 -- Introduction 21 -- 1 Literacy, schooling and development: views of Rabari nomads, India 27 -- CAROLINE DYER AND ARCHANA CHOKSI -- 2 'Literacy - your key to a better future'? Literacy, reconciliation and development in the National Literacy Programme in Namibia 40 -- UTA PAPEN -- 3 More than just chanting: multilingual literacies, ideology and teaching methodologies in rural Eritrea 61 -- MARTHA WAGAR WRIGHT -- 4 Betrayal and solidarity in ethnography on literacy: revisiting research homework in a north Indian village 78 -- PRITI CHOPRA -- PART II -- Literacy and development: local literacies and development agendas 93 -- Introduction 95 -- 5 Literacies, languages and developments in Peruvian Amazonia 103 -- SHEILA AIKMAN -- 6 Another language, another literacy? Practices in northern Ghana 121 -- PAT HERBERT AND CLINTON ROBINSON -- 7 Literacy and the market: the economic uses of literacy among the peasantry in north-west Bangladesh 137 -- BRYAN MADDOX -- 8 Women's literacy and health: can an ethnographic researcher find the links? 152 -- ANNA ROBINSON-PANT -- 9 Household literacy environments as contexts for development in rural China 171 -- REGIE STITES -- 10 Literacies, gender and power in rural Pakistan 188 -- SHIRIN ZUBAIR -- Afterword: problematising literacy and development 205 -- ALAN ROGERS --Index 223.
0415234506 0415234514 (pbk.)
00059237
Literacy--Developing countries--Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnology--Developing countries.
LC161 / .L58 2001
302.2/244/091724
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- BRIAN V. STREET --PART I -- Literacy and development: ethnographic perspectives on schooling and adult education 19 -- Introduction 21 -- 1 Literacy, schooling and development: views of Rabari nomads, India 27 -- CAROLINE DYER AND ARCHANA CHOKSI -- 2 'Literacy - your key to a better future'? Literacy, reconciliation and development in the National Literacy Programme in Namibia 40 -- UTA PAPEN -- 3 More than just chanting: multilingual literacies, ideology and teaching methodologies in rural Eritrea 61 -- MARTHA WAGAR WRIGHT -- 4 Betrayal and solidarity in ethnography on literacy: revisiting research homework in a north Indian village 78 -- PRITI CHOPRA -- PART II -- Literacy and development: local literacies and development agendas 93 -- Introduction 95 -- 5 Literacies, languages and developments in Peruvian Amazonia 103 -- SHEILA AIKMAN -- 6 Another language, another literacy? Practices in northern Ghana 121 -- PAT HERBERT AND CLINTON ROBINSON -- 7 Literacy and the market: the economic uses of literacy among the peasantry in north-west Bangladesh 137 -- BRYAN MADDOX -- 8 Women's literacy and health: can an ethnographic researcher find the links? 152 -- ANNA ROBINSON-PANT -- 9 Household literacy environments as contexts for development in rural China 171 -- REGIE STITES -- 10 Literacies, gender and power in rural Pakistan 188 -- SHIRIN ZUBAIR -- Afterword: problematising literacy and development 205 -- ALAN ROGERS --Index 223.
0415234506 0415234514 (pbk.)
00059237
Literacy--Developing countries--Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnology--Developing countries.
LC161 / .L58 2001
302.2/244/091724