Situated Literacies: Reading and Writing in Context

David Barton, Mary Hamilton, Roz·Ivani閏, Roz Ivanič

Psychology Press, 2000 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 222 pages

Situated Literacies is a rich and 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
the role of discourse analysis on literacy studies
These studies, along with a foreword by Denny Taylor, make a timely and important contribution to literacy theory and suggest directions for the further development of the field. Situated Literacies is essential reading for anyone involved in literary education.

Contents

• LITERACY PRACTICES: 7
• EXPANDING THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES Using photographs to explore literacy as social practice: 16
• THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES AND TIME An exploration: 35
• THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THIRDSPACE THEORY Borderland Discourse and the inbetween literacies of prisons: 54
• BECOMING JUST ANOTHER ALPHANUMERIC CODE Farmers encounters with the literacy and discourse practices of agricultural bureaucracy at ...: 68
• TEXTS IN PRACTICES Interpreting the physical characteristics of childrens project work: 89
• FAMILY LITERACY A pedagogy for the future?: 104
• EMERGENT LITERACY PRACTICES IN AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNITY: 121
• RESPECT AND THE PURSUIT OF SYMMETRY IN RESEARCHING LITERACY AND STUDENT WRITING: 145
• RESEARCHING LITERACY PRACTICES Learning from activities with teachers and students: 163
• THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES From socially situated to the work of the social: 176
• THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES Context intertextuality and discourse: 193
• NEW LITERACY STUDIES AT THE INTERCHANGE: 206
• INDEX: 215

About the author

David Barton, Mary Hamilton and Roz Ivanic are all based at Lancaster University. David Barton is the Literacies series editor and has previously collaborated with Mary Hamilton on Local Literacies (1998) Roz Ivanic is the co-author of The Politics of Writing (1997)

Bibliographic information

• Title: Situated Literacies: Reading and Writing in Context; Literacies (Routledge); Literacies Series
• Editors: David Barton, Mary Hamilton, Roz·Ivani閏, Roz Ivanič
• Contributor: Ebooks Corporation
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0415206707, 9780415206709
• Length: 222 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy