Literacy in the Lives of Working-Class Adults in Australia

Dominant versus Local Voices

von Stephen Black

240 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Adopting a 'social practice' approach to literacy research based on ethnographic methods, this book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults in Australia. It explores how groups of working-class adults can manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives by drawing on social networks of support. It is based on research conducted by the author over a forty-year career in adult literacy education, featuring the voices of varied adult groups, including: prisoners, the long-term unemployed, local council workers, manufacturing workers, adult literacy students, marginalised young people, vocational students, and patients living with a chronic illness (type 2 diabetes).Each chapter explains how dominant society views these adult groups in relation to literacy, and provides a qualitative examination at the local level of how members of these groups manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives.

• Reihe: Bloomsbury 3PL
• ISBN: 9781350378100
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2023
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC