Download or read book An Ethnographic Study of Literacy Practices in a Village Community in Malawi written by Ahmmardouh Mjaya and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literacies Power and Identities in Figured Worlds in Malawi written by Ahmmardouh Mjaya and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on an in-depth ethnographic study of the National Adult Literacy Programme (NALP) in Malawi. It highlights the significance of exploring power and identity in literacy studies. Employing the concept of 'figured worlds' to study literacy as a social practice, the book focuses on understanding power relationships and identities in literacy practices. It illustrates how literacy identities and power relationships of some local community members continuously vary from one context to another and, in some cases, even within the same context. Using notions such as agency, artefact, resistance, shame and positioning, the book demonstrates the potential of the concept of figured worlds to address some of the questions raised within the New Literacy Studies – especially those concerning power and identity. The book also illustrates the value of an ethnographic approach in adult literacy studies, by exploring the challenges faced by the researcher in gaining access to community members' activities, and the opportunity to experience first-hand what instructors go through in facilitating adult literacy lessons.
Download or read book An Ethnographic Study of Rural Community Literacy Practices in Bweyale and Their Implications for Adult Literacy Education in Uganda written by George L. Openjuru and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literacy and Development written by Brian V. Street and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy and Development is a collection of case studies of literacy projects around the world. The contributors present their in-depth studies of everyday uses and meanings of literacy and of the literacy programmes that have been developed to enhance them. Arguing that ethnographic research can and should inform literacy policy in developing countries, the book extends current theory and itself contributes to policy making and programme building. A large cross-section of society is covered, with chapters on Women's literacy in Pakistan, Ghana, and Rural Mali, literacy in village Iran, and an 'Older Peoples' Literacy Project. This international collection includes case studies from: Peru, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, Mali, Nepal, Iran, Eritrea, Ghana.
Download or read book Community Literacies and Adult Literacy Education written by George Ladaah Openjuru and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was a study of rural community literacy practices in Uganda. I used the social practices theory of literacy as a theoretical framework to investigate literacy use in rural community life in Bweyale. The social practices theory of literacy sees literacy as variable social practice that can only be understood within the social context of its use. Consistent with the social practices theoretical perspective and following similar research traditions in this area of literacy study, I used ethnographic research methods to collect data and grounded theory methods to analyse data on literacy use in Bweyale. The study revealed that rural people, contrary to popular perceptions about their illiteracy and hence lack of literacy, actually use reading and writing in a variety of ways in different domains of literacy use. Literacy pervades most aspects of rural community life, making rural people use literacy in many rich and creative ways. Most people, regardless of their literacy status, participate in local literacy practices. The most prominent areas of literacy use in rural community life are livelihood activities, education, religion, bureaucracy, household life, and personal life.
Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Writing written by Rosalind Horowitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly research Handbook aggregates the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research from scholars worldwide and brings them together into a common intellectual space. This is the first such international compilation. Now in its second edition, the Handbook inaugurates a wide scope of international research advancement, with attention to writing at all levels of schooling and in all life situations. It provides advanced surveys of scholarship on the histories of world and child writing and literacy; interconnections between writing, reading, and speech; digital writing; writing in communities; writing in the sciences and engineering; writing instruction and assessment; and writing and disability. A section on international measures for assessment of writing is a new addition to this compendium of research. This Handbook serves as a comprehensive resource for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in writing studies and rhetoric, composition, creative expression, education, and literacy studies.
Download or read book Everyday Literacy Practices in Remote Rural Communities in PNG written by Olive Baloiloi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since gaining independence from Australia in 1975, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has experienced major social, economic, political and educational changes, many of which have been accelerated by the influences of globalization. Within this context of rapid change, literacy has been an interest of international organizations keen to help PNG. Such organizations have emphasized the nation's poor literacy rates. In particular, they have described many of the people living in remote rural communities as 'illiterate'. Yet little is known about what the people living in these communities can actually do with literacy; the focus has always been on what they cannot do. The study described in this thesis aimed to fill this gap. The study drew on theoretical perspectives offered by the field of Literacy Studies, which analyses literacy practices within the social and cultural contexts in which they occur. In particular, it drew on Street's notion of literacy as social practice and Barton and Hamilton's notion of everyday literacy practices. In addition, it drew on Blommaert's elaboration of grassroots literacy and Freebody and Luke's Four Resource Model. Integral to all these ways of thinking about literacy is the importance of context, history and power. An ethnographically oriented qualitative case study approach was employed to explore how people living in the rural communities of Fergusson Island, Milne Bay Province, engage with literacy in their everyday lives. Participants were recruited from among people located at Salamo station, the economic center of the island, and two near-by villages. The data were generated using observations, group and individual interviews, conversations, photographs and written texts produced by some of the participants. The data were analyzed using methods derived from the theoretical ideas listed above. The findings revealed that the participants used reading and writing in six domains: government, church, school, market, gardens and personal lives. Reading and writing were evident in their everyday literacy practices. People read and wrote in both English and vernacular languages. They used functional grassroots literacy as they strived for economic gains amid the poverty of life in the remote rural communities of PNG. Their literacy practices were adequate for simple written communication in English and Dobu, the local language, but were less effective in settings beyond their villages where far more complex literacies were required for effective social and economic participation. By documenting the everyday literacy practices of people living in these remote areas of PNG, an under-researched context, the study contributes to perspectives on literacy in developing nations similar to PNG. Developers and organizations in the developing world are concerned about the literacy levels of rural communities and they often measure the levels through adult literacy enrolments in formal school systems of schools. The findings of this study suggest the value of paying attention to what people can already do in their everyday lives as a foundation upon which to develop their literacy capabilities further.
Download or read book Intercultural Education and Literacy written by Sheila Aikman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous peoples around the world are calling for control over their education in order to reaffirm their identities and defend their rights. In Latin America the indigenous peoples, national governments and international organisations have identified intercultural education as a means of contributing to this process. The book investigates education for and by indigenous peoples and examines the relationship between theoretical and methodological developments and formal practice. An ethnographic study of the Arakmbut people of the Peruvian Amazon, provides a detailed example of the social, cultural and educational change indigenous peoples are experiencing, an insight into Arakmbut oral learning and teaching practices as well as a review of their conceptualisations of knowledge, pedagogy and evaluation. The models of intercultural education being promoted by Latin American governments are, nevertheless, biliterate and school-based. The book analyses indigenous and non-indigenous models based on different conceptualisations of culture and curriculum in the context of the Arakmbut search for an education which respects their dynamic oral cultural traditions and identity, provides them with a qualitatively relevant education about the wider society and addresses the intercultural lives they lead.
Download or read book Literacy in Its Place written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Adult Literacy written by Juliet McCaffery and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2007 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help those who plan and develop literacy initiatives; using case studies from literacy programmes in many countries including Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mali, Nigeria, the Philippines and Uganda, it demonstrates the importance of literacy, its power to improve lives, and the role literacy plays in social and economic development.
Download or read book Adult Literacy as Social Practice written by Uta Papen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a radically new perspective on reading, writing and mathematics for adults, this refreshing and challenging book shows how teachers and curriculum developers have much to gain from understanding the role of literacy in learners' lives, bringing in their families, social networks and jobs. Looking at the practicalities of how teachers and students can work with social practice in mind, Adult Literacy as Social Practice is particularly focused on: * how a social theory of literacy and numeracy compares with other theoretical perspectives * how to analyze reading and writing in everyday life using the concepts of social literacy as analytical tools, and what this tells us about learners' teaching needs * what is actually happening in adult basic education and how literacy is really being taught * professional development. With major policy initiatives coming into force, this is the essential guide for teachers and curriculum developers through this area, offering one-stop coverage of the key concepts without the need for finding materials from far-scattered sources.
Download or read book Invitations to Love written by Laura M. Ahearn and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the implications of the emergence of love-letter correspondences for social relations in Nepal
Download or read book ASA News written by African Studies Association and published by African Studies Association. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Eat Green Cucumbers at the Time of Dying written by Anna Robinson-Pant and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The processes by which women living in rural areas of Nepal acquire literacy and deploy it for their own purposes were examined in an exploration of the diverse perspectives of policymakers, fieldworkers, and participants in gender, literacy, and development. The study combined ethnography with a research methodology called participatory rural appraisal (PRA), which began as a development planning methodology based on an empowering process that allows all people, including weaker and poorer people, to collate, present, and analyze information. The following were among the issues explored: approaches to women's literacy in Nepal; language policy in literacy programs; nongovernmental organizations versus the classroom; gender and language policy; new versus old approaches to literacy and numeracy teaching; and the role of literacy in development ideologies. The study documented how factors outside literacy classrooms, including facilitators' educational background and local concepts about education, necessitate adapting literacy practices developed in the West to the specific social contexts of rural areas in developing countries. The following are among the items in the 13 appendixes: a map of the case study areas; examples of PRA activities conducted during fieldwork; who's who in HIL (Health Is Life) and Save; notes on the Nepali caste system; HIL lesson sheet (English name writing method); Kosalee mathematics; HIL mathematics sheets; record forms to be completed by Save women's groups every month; and an example of a Save USA funding proposal. (Contains 195 references.) (MN).
Download or read book Educational Policy Choice and Policy Practice in Malawi written by Esme C. Kadzamira and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cooking Data written by Cal (Crystal) Biruk and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather, they are always “cooked” during their production and inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce them. Examining how the relationships among fieldworkers, supervisors, respondents, and foreign demographers shape data, Biruk examines the ways in which units of information—such as survey questions and numbers written onto questionnaires by fieldworkers—acquire value as statistics that go on to shape national AIDS policy. Her approach illustrates how on-the-ground dynamics and research cultures mediate the production of global health statistics in ways that impact local economies and formulations of power and expertise.
Download or read book Assessment Debates written by Tim Horton and published by Open University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of four books concentrating on highly topical developments in curriculum and learning. This book is co-published with the Open University for course E271.
