Literacies, Global and Local

by Mastin Prinsloo
Literacies, Global and Local
Author: Mastin Prinsloo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027205186
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The articles collected in this volume draw on or relate to a body of work that has become known as the 'New Literacy Studies' (NLS), which studies literacy as situated semiotic practices that vary across sites in specific ways that are socially shaped. The collection offers a body of empirically and theoretically based papers on literacy ethnography as well as providing engagements with critical issues around literacy and education. The articles offer complementary perspectives on research and theory in literacy studies and include research perspectives from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, as well as North and South America. The researchers are all concerned to take the work of the New Literacy Studies further by expanding on its conceptual resources and research sites.

Local Literacies

by David Barton
Local Literacies
Author: David Barton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134694997
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Local Literacies is a unique study of everyday reading and writing. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Britain, the authors analyze how they use literacy in their day to day lives.

Literacies, Global and Local

by Mastin Prinsloo
Literacies, Global and Local
Author: Mastin Prinsloo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008-05-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027291187
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The articles collected in this volume draw on or relate to a body of work that has become known as the ‘New Literacy Studies’ (NLS), which studies literacy as situated semiotic practices that vary across sites in specific ways that are socially shaped. The collection offers a body of empirically and theoretically based papers on literacy ethnography as well as providing engagements with critical issues around literacy and education. The articles offer complementary perspectives on research and theory in literacy studies and include research perspectives from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, as well as North and South America. The researchers are all concerned to take the work of the New Literacy Studies further by expanding on its conceptual resources and research sites.

Global Literacies

by Robert H. Rosen
Global Literacies
Author: Robert H. Rosen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2000-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0684859025
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This book illuminates results from a wide-ranging, landmark study of global leaders and their world-class companies that proves that managers must understand, respect, and learn from a variety of national cultures to be successful--at home and abroad. 10 photos.

Local Literacies

by Glenys Waters
Local Literacies
Author: Glenys Waters
Publisher: Sil International, Global Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781556710384
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Details how to plan and carry out a community literacy project, including tackling the additional barriers of language, culture and logistics in developing countries¿ a "must" for the pioneering literacy worker.

Literacy Studies

by Mastin Prinsloo
Literacy Studies
Author: Mastin Prinsloo
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Total Pages: 1928
Release: 2013-08-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781446253151
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This five-volume collection lays out the foundations and nuances of literacy studies. Beginning with the theoretical and epistemological perspectives that have been influential in shaping contemporary approaches in literacy studies, the set further explores new digital literacies, literacy in educational and institutional contexts, and the crucial issues of literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. With a full introduction to the set and to each volume, researchers will find in this set a comprehensive guide to this crucial area of study.

Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World

by Verhulsdonck, Gustav
Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World
Author: Verhulsdonck, Gustav
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1466649178
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Understanding digital modes and practices of traditional rhetoric are essential in emphasizing information and interaction in human-to-human and human-computer contexts. These emerging technologies are essential in gauging information processes across global contexts. Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World compiles relevant theoretical frameworks, current practical applications, and emerging practices of digital rhetoric. Highlighting the key principles and understandings of the underlying modes, practices, and literacies of communication, this book is a vital guide for professionals, scholars, researchers, and educators interested in finding clarity and enrichment in the diverse perspectives of digital rhetoric research.

Global Literacy in Local Learning Contexts

by Mary Faith Mount-Cors
Global Literacy in Local Learning Contexts
Author: Mary Faith Mount-Cors
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317296923
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Based on qualitative research focused on literacy and health from three schools in coastal Kenya, this book examines country, school, and family contexts to develop a dual-generation maternal-child model for literacy learning and to connect local-specific phenomena with national and international policy arenas. In contrast to international development organizations’ educational policies and programs that tend to ignore literacy as a social practice within diverse contexts, the author unpacks the relationship between education and health, and the role of family and mothers in particular, highlighting how mothers are key actors in children’s literacy development and health outcomes.

Literacy and Globalization

by Uta Papen
Literacy and Globalization
Author: Uta Papen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134217323
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Using literacy practices in the newly independent post-apartheid Namibia as a lens through which to examine the effects of globalisation, this broad case study looks at issues surrounding tourism, state control and the new forces of consumerism. By placing literacy at the centre of an investigation into social and cultural change as experienced by individuals, Papen shows that in times of change, reading and writing are always implicated in structures of power and inequality. The book considers language practices that can exclude some members of Namibian society and also looks at the strategies used by local people to accommodate and even embrace the onward march of global English and the influx of foreign visitors, practices and modes of commerce and interaction.