Society Reschooling

Autor/in	Street, Brian V.
Titel	Society Reschooling
Quelle	In: Reading Research Quarterly, 47 (2012) 2, S.216-227 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-0553
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Adult Learning; Adult Students; Literacy; Writing Skills; Teaching Methods; Foreign Countries; Informal Education; Correlation; Reading Habits; Language Skills; Skill Development; Reading Skills; Ethnography; Adult Literacy; Literacy Education; Educational Methods; Program Effectiveness; United Kingdom; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Korrelation; Reading habit; Lesegewohnheit; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Ethnografie; Educational method; Erziehungsmethode; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	This essay offers a commentary on how the relationship between language and literacy practices in and out of school has been conceptualized. It draws upon two new books in the field. Shirley Brice Heath's new book, "Words at Work and Play: Three Decades in Family and Community Life," which makes use of rich ethnographic accounts of children's educational and literacy development across three generations, following her initial study of families in "Ways With Words," argues that "everyday, informal learning that all engage in will link with and complement the more formal directions" (p. 169). In "The Great Literacy Debate," an edited book from the U.K., the authors argue that the government's National Literacy Strategy there did not succeed, a failure which they claim was to be explained in terms of problems with how literacy was defined. A key issue for the authors, in both the U.S. and the U.K., is their criticism of formal educational approaches to literacy and the recognition that school needs to take account of social factors outside of school in helping pupils acquire the reading and writing skills required by schooling. This essay draws out the notion of two "fields" in the approach to literacy as a way of characterizing the issues raised: the field in which "literacy" is defined and performed in education and the field of New Literacy Studies, with its emphasis on social practice in a wider context than schooling. In an attempt to broaden the international focus of the consideration of the possible link between these two fields--how literacy in everyday life can be linked with literacy in educational contexts--the article then extends to a consideration of a program in which ethnographic perspectives have been applied to help teachers build on adult learners' prior literacies. The project developed by Rogers and Street (2011) is labeled Learning Empowerment Through Training in Ethnographic Research (LETTER) and has been applied in a number of internationals, such as India, Ethiopia, and Uganda. The paper concludes by pointing to a direction in which a literacy strategy might build on actual practice of the kind described, taking account of the theoretical and pedagogical principles developed in the books and programs reviewed here. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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