Literacies and Livelihood Strategies: Experience from Usulutan, El Salvador

Autor/in	Betts, Julia
Titel	Literacies and Livelihood Strategies: Experience from Usulutan, El Salvador
Quelle	In: International Journal of Educational Development, 23 (2003) 3, S.291-298 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0738-0593
DOI	10.1016/S0738-0593(02)00052-4
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Foreign Countries; Adult Literacy; Latin Americans; Social Psychology; Community Involvement; Community Attitudes; Community Cooperation; Community Support; Resistance (Psychology); Change Strategies; Motivation Techniques; El Salvador + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Ausland; Latin America; People; Lateinamerika; Bevölkerung; Volk; Sozialpsychologie; Resistenz; Lösungsstrategie; Motivationsförderung
Abstract	This paper discusses some of the ways in which "low participation" in a Central American adult literacy project, often attributed by planners to "barriers" to or "lack of motivation" for literacy, revealed through ethnographic fieldwork a complex story of resistance and co-option. People engaged with literacy and the discourses around it as part of their livelihood strategies and aspirations, in ways that often went unrecognized by planners and implementers. The discourse of "literacy as power" is critiqued by the voices of adults in this context. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10