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Women, Literacy and Development
Women's literacy is often assumed to be the key to promoting better health, family planning and nutrition in the developing world. This has dominated much development research and has led to women's literacy being promoted by governments and aid agencies as the key to improving the lives of poor families. High dropout rates from literacy programmes suggest that the assumed link between women's literacy and development can be disputed. This book explores why women themselves want to learn to read and write and why, all too often, they decide that literacy classes are not for them. Bringing together the experiences of researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in more than a dozen co...
Women, Literacy, and Development
Women's literacy is held to be a key factor in promoting better health, family planning & nutrition in the developing world. This book assesses the connections & tests common assumptions, bringing together experience from South Asia, Africa & South America.
Cross Cultural Perspectives On Educational Research
Winner of the BMW Group LIFE Award for Contribution to Intercultural Learning, 2007 The research student population of higher educational institutions continues to expand to include people from an ever-widening range of cultural and educational backgrounds. However, many research methods courses are still directed at the traditional student population. This book examines aspects of postgraduate research from a cross-cultural perspective, analysing the dilemmas faced by international students when defining a research question, choosing research methods, collecting data, deciding which language to use and writing their theses. Through an exploration of how international students re-examine the...
Adult Learning and Social Change in the UK
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Series Foreword -- 1 Being part of the social change: adult education and lessons from history Sharon Clancy -- 2 Radical adult education practitioners in the UK: the International League for Social Commitment in Adult Education 1984-94 Alan Tuckett -- 3 Adult learning and social justice: health, well-being and the inequalities of power Lyn Tett -- 4 Learning English in a hostile environment: a study of volunteer ESOL teachers of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK Lauren Bouttell -- 5 A refugee third sector learning ecology for social change: 'covert activism' Mary-Rose Puttick -- 6 Discussion groups wit...
Indigenous Women and Adult Learning
In contemporary educational research, practice and policy, ‘indigenous women’ have emerged as an important focus in the global education arena and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This edited book investigates what is significant about indigenous women and their learning in terms of policy directions, research agendas and, not least, their own aspirations. The book examines contemporary education policy and questions the dominant deficit discourse of indigenous women as vulnerable. By contrast, this publication demonstrates the marginalisations and multiple discriminations that indigenous women confront as indigenous persons, as women and as indigenous women. Chapters draw on eth...
University Writing
'University Writing' examines new trends in the different theoretical perspectives (cognitive, social and cultural) and derived practices in the activity of writing in higher education.
EBOOK: New Perspectives In Primary Education: Meaning And Purpose In Learning And Teaching
"This is a timely book, enabling teachers to reflect critically upon their existing work-place practices, which have been so powerfully shaped by the target culture and the logic of performativity that has underpinned it for two decades. More importantly it will empower primary school teachers to play a more active role in effecting curriculum and pedagogical change in their schools and classrooms." Professor John Elliot, School of Education, University of East Anglia, UK This book encourages you to question the existing culture of schooling, its principles and practices. Current practices have been shaped and dominated by a target led and outcomes driven agenda. The book addresses some of t...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Development
This book aims to create a space for new interdisciplinary debate in this area, through bringing together contributions on literacy and development from the fields of education, literacy studies, anthropology and economics.
Language, Literacy and Education
This work provides a collection of readings that illustrate both the variation in research on language and literacy and the common underlying themes. It covers four themes: talk and the process of teaching and learning; literacy and education; discourse and identity; and multimodal communication.
Why Writing Matters
This book brings together the work of scholars from around the world UK, Pakistan, US, South Africa, Hungary, Korea, Mexico to illustrate and celebrate the many ways in which Roz Ivanic has advanced the academic study of writing. Focusing on writing in different formal contexts of education, from primary through to further and higher education in a range of national contexts, the twenty one original contributions in the book critically engage with theoretical and empirical issues raised in Ivanic's influential body of work. In their exploration of writers' struggles with the demands of dominant literacy the authors significantly extend understandings of writing practices in formal institutions. Organized around three themes central to Ivanic's work creativity and identity; pedagogy; and research methodologies the twelve chapters and nine personal and scholarly reflections reveal the powerful ways in which Ivanic's work has influenced thinking in the field of writing and continues to open up avenues for future questioning and research.
