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The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa Book

The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa
The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa, This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal education, but as social practice, The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa has a rating of 3 stars
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  • The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa
  • Written by author Mastin Prinsloo, Mignonne Breier
  • Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 1996/10/01
  • This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal education, but as social practice
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Preface 1
Introduction 11
Ch. 1 Literacy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the first democratic national elections in South Africa 33
Ch. 2 Literacy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape 49
Ch. 3 Literacy and communication in a Cape factory 65
Ch. 4 Communicative practices of the service staff of a school 85
Ch. 5 Literacy mediation and social identity in Newtown, Eastern Cape 105
Ch. 6 Cultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies: land struggles in Namaqualand's Coloured reserves 123
Ch. 7 Literacy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South 141
Ch. 8 'We can all sing, but we can't all talk': literacy brokers and tsotsi gangsters in a Cape Town shantytown 157
Ch. 9 Literacy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity: Khayelitshan ways of knowing 177
Ch. 10 'We are waiting/this is our home': literacy and the search for resources in the rural Eastern Cape 197
Ch. 11 Taking literacy for a ride - reading and writing in the taxi industry 213
Ch. 12 Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula 235
Afterword 257
References 265
Index 275


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