Cultural and Social Uses of Orality and Functional Literacy: A Narrative Approach

Autor/in	Johnson, Lineo R.
Titel	Cultural and Social Uses of Orality and Functional Literacy: A Narrative Approach
Quelle	In: Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 7 (2016) 1, Artikel 119 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2079-8245
Schlagwörter	Functional Literacy; Personal Narratives; Story Telling; Foreign Countries; Reading Skills; Writing Skills; Adult Literacy; Adult Reading Programs; Indigenous Knowledge; Numeracy; Computation; Literacy Education; Mathematics Skills; Lesotho + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Funktionale Kompetenz; Erlebniserzählung; Ausland; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Rechenkompetenz; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz
Abstract	Lesotho's educational system and development are largely influenced by missionaries and colonisers who taught the three 'Rs' (reading, writing and numeracy skills) to the Basotho. Most of those enlightened Basotho were to carry on the duties of either educating others or as missionary workers. Some became clerks, interpreters, police officers, nurses and Sunday school teachers. This article is an account of a functionally literate Mosotho male adult learner who was herding livestock and taught himself reading and writing skills. In his narrative, Hlalefang (not his real name) compares literacy to money and a watch or a clock. He further expresses how people like him have managed to muster some basic and restructure the cognitive and oral history and archival memories, through intuitiveness. The story is based on the work of Paulo Freire where culture influences the discourse of literacy. A qualitative narrative story-telling approach was used to relate Hlalefang's lived-experiences as he navigated his ways and challenges using orality acquired through various life encounters. This inspirational cultural narrative demonstrates that culture and social uses are imperatives in functional literacy. The article challenges those in adult education, literacy, development practitioners and policy-makers to consider some aspects of culture and to be innovative in their approaches to multi-literacies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01