A Literate South

Author : Beth Barton Schweiger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300245394

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A Literate South by Beth Barton Schweiger Pdf

A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South’s oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible—which has its origins in the eighteenth century—has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture.

Author : Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442995406

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Self-Taught by Heather Andrea Williams Pdf

Author : Janet Duitsman Cornelius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021833093

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"When I Can Read My Title Clear" by Janet Duitsman Cornelius Pdf

'A distinctive volume revealing America's often-contradictory dance with freedom & the concepts of equality & inalienable rights.'-Chicago Tribune.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002144

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Reading the past, writing the future by UNESCO Pdf

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Author : Albert Weideman,John Read,Theo du Plessis
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788926225

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Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society by Albert Weideman,John Read,Theo du Plessis Pdf

South African universities face major challenges in meeting the needs of their students in the area of academic language and literacy. The dominant medium of instruction in the universities is English and, to a much lesser extent, Afrikaans, but only a minority of the national population are native speakers of these languages. Nine other languages can be media of instruction in schools, which makes the transition to tertiary education difficult enough in itself for students from these schools. The focus of this book is on procedures for assessing the academic language and literacy levels and needs of students, not in order to exclude students from higher education but rather to identify those who would benefit from further development of their ability in order to undertake their degree studies successfully. The volume also aims to bring the innovative solutions designed by South African educators to a wider international audience.

Author : Mastin Prinsloo,Mignonne Breier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027217950

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The Social Uses of Literacy by Mastin Prinsloo,Mignonne Breier Pdf

The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa challenges state-driven policy and provision in South Africa around the construction of a national delivery system for adult literacy that is part of a programme for Adult Basic Education. The implication is that many people who are the target of this system will be unwilling to participate at the entry point of literacy acquisition unless a reconceptualisation of the nature of literacy use by adults is made. Using fascinating and carefully documented case-study material, this book raises vital questions about literacy and illiteracy, and about adult education. Above all, it questions the efficacy of any literacy programme which fails to acknowledge the many ways in which uneducated and so called 'illiterate' people already use reading, writing and numeracy in their everyday lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004298507

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Perspectives on Indigenous writing and literacies by Anonim Pdf

Exploring writing and literacies across five continents, this volume celebrates the resilience of Indigenous languages. This book contributes to an understanding of contemporary challenges, while also demonstrating innovative and creative ideas for the future of Indigenous writing and literacies.

Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307398581

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Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges Pdf

Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.

Author : Robyn Ewing,Siobhan O'Brien,Kathy Rushton,Lucy Stewart,Rachel Burke,Deb Brosseuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781009154031

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English and Literacies by Robyn Ewing,Siobhan O'Brien,Kathy Rushton,Lucy Stewart,Rachel Burke,Deb Brosseuk Pdf

English and Literacies introduces pre-service teachers to the many facets of literacies and English education for primary students.

Author : Wayne Sewell
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : WEB (Computer program language).
ISBN : UCAL:B4340086

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Weaving a Program by Wayne Sewell Pdf

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Author : David R. Olson,Nancy Torrance
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139476317

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The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy by David R. Olson,Nancy Torrance Pdf

This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological functions in both modern and developing societies. It does so by exploring the nature and development of writing systems, the relations between speech and writing, the history of the social uses of writing, the evolution of conventions of reading, the social and developmental dimensions of acquiring literate competencies, and, more generally, the conceptual and cognitive dimensions of literacy as a set of social practices. Contributors to the volume are leading scholars drawn from such disciplines as linguistics, literature, history, anthropology, psychology, the neurosciences, cultural psychology, and education.

Author : Francis Cody
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780801469015

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The Light of Knowledge by Francis Cody Pdf

Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody’s ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right. The Light of Knowledge is set primarily in the rural district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, and it is about activism among laboring women from marginalized castes who have been particularly active as learners and volunteers in the movement. In their endeavors to remake the Tamil countryside through literacy activism, workers in the movement found that their own understanding of the politics of writing and Enlightenment was often transformed as they encountered vastly different notions of language and imaginations of social order. Indeed, while activists of the movement successfully mobilized large numbers of rural women, they did so through logics that often pushed against the very Enlightenment rationality they hoped to foster. Offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at an increasingly important area of social and political activism, The Light of Knowledge brings tools of linguistic anthropology to engage with critical social theories of the postcolonial state.

Author : Roy Blount, Jr.
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781582434582

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Long Time Leaving by Roy Blount, Jr. Pdf

In this acerbic, eminently quotable book, humorist Roy Blount Jr. focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide. Scholarly, raunchy, biting, and affable, Blount takes on topics ranging from chicken fingers and yellow dog Democrats to Elvis's toes while sharing some experiences of his own: chatting with Ray Charles, meeting an Okefenokee alligator, imagining Faulkner's tennis game, and being swept up, sort of, in the filming of Nashville. His yarns, analyses, and flights of fancy transcend all standard shades of Red, Blue, and in between. Blount's sidesplitting, irreverent musings may not end our tacit Civil War at long last, but they do clarify, or aptly complicate, divisive delusions on both sides of the long–standing national rift. Long Time Leaving is a comic ode to American variety and a droll assault on complacency both North and South from one of the most definitive and esteemed humorists of our time.

Author : Daniel Goleman,Lisa Bennett,Zenobia Barlow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118237205

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Ecoliterate by Daniel Goleman,Lisa Bennett,Zenobia Barlow Pdf

A new integration of Goleman's emotional, social, and ecological intelligence Hopeful, eloquent, and bold, Ecoliterate offers inspiring stories, practical guidance, and an exciting new model of education that builds - in vitally important ways - on the success of social and emotional learning by addressing today's most important ecological issues. This book shares stories of pioneering educators, students, and activists engaged in issues related to food, water, oil, and coal in communities from the mountains of Appalachia to a small village in the Arctic; the deserts of New Mexico to the coast of New Orleans; and the streets of Oakland, California to the hills of South Carolina. Ecoliterate marks a rich collaboration between Daniel Goleman and the Center for Ecoliteracy, an organization best known for its pioneering work with school gardens, school lunches, and integrating ecological principles and sustainability into school curricula. For nearly twenty years the Center has worked with schools and organizations in more than 400 communities across the United States and numerous other countries. Ecoliterate also presents five core practices of emotionally and socially engaged ecoliteracy and a professional development guide.

Author : Iswari P. Pandey
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822963787

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South Asian in the Mid-South by Iswari P. Pandey Pdf

Winner of the 2017 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award. In an age of global anxiety and suspicion, South Asian immigrants juggle multiple cultural and literate traditions in Mid-South America. In this study Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into this community to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and cross-cultural understanding at sites as varied as a Hindu school, a Hindu women’s reading group, Muslim men’s and women’s discussion groups formed soon after 9/11, and cross-cultural presentations by these immigrants to the host communities and law enforcement agencies. Through more than seventy interviews, he reveals the migratory nature of literacies and the community work required to make these practices meaningful. Pandey addresses critical questions about language and cultural identity at a time of profound change. He examines how symbolic resources are invented and reinvented and circulated and recirculated within and across communities; the impact of English and new technologies on teaching, learning, and practicing ancestral languages; and how gender and religious identifications shape these practices. Overall, the book offers a thorough examination of the ways individuals use interpretive powers for agency within their own communities and for cross-cultural understanding in a globalizing world and what these practices mean for our understanding of that world.