Of interest to GEM members who are working on adult literacy and/or have links with developing countries around the world.
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From: David Shaw
Sent: 24 July 2012 11:41
To: HQ; Wales
Subject: New publication in the bookshop: Adult Literacy and Development
Adult
Literacy and Development
Stories from the Field
Alan Rogers and Brian Street
http://shop.niace.org.uk/adult-literacy-development.html
In Adult Literacy and Development: Stories from the Field, Alan Rogers and Brian Street draw upon their extensive experience in adult literacy promotion in many different countries of the developing
world and the West, and on the work of many others (both researchers and practitioners) to try to understand what literacy means in different contexts and to develop new ways in which the uses of literacy can be promoted.
They advocate the use of ethnographic approaches to explore the nature of everyday literacy practices, especially those learned through informal learning. In seeking new ways of promoting literacy, they argue
that the two fields of the informal learning of informal literacies and the formal learning of formal literacies which ethnographic studies have revealed can form an alliance; that each can build on the other to increase the literacy practices in everyday
use.
Adult Literacy and Development: Stories from the Field is brought to life with stories drawn from their experience and is illustrated with photographs of adult
literacy practices in different international contexts.
It will appeal to all those concerned with adult literacy, whether in so-called Developing countries of the West – practitioners and policy makers, planners and trainers, and researchers and students in development
and educational programmes.
Alan Rogers, a previous Secretary General of the Commonwealth Association for the Education and Training of Adults, is a Visiting Professor at the School of Education
and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia and at the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. Author of a number of books on adult education and international development, he has wide experience of working in many countries of Africa
and Asia.
Brian Street is Emeritus Professor of Language in Education at King’s College, London and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University
of Pennsylvania. He has a commitment to linking ethnographic-style research on the cultural dimension of language and literacy with contemporary practice in education and development. Over the past 25 years he has undertaken anthropological field research
and been consultant to projects in these fields in countries such as Nepal, South Africa, India, USA and the UK. He has published 25 books, many co-authored or co-edited, and 120 scholarly papers.
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