Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography, and EducationSocial Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective. It represents part of the current trend towards a broader consideration of literacy as social practices, and as its title suggests, it focuses on the social nature of reading and writing and the multiple character of literacy practices. |
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Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development ... Brian V. Street Limited preview - 2014 |
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