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Adult Literacy and Development: Stories from the Field
Adult Literacy and Development Stories from the Field Author:Alan Rogers, Brian Street For international practitioners, students, researchers, and policy makers alike, this book brings together adult learning and anthropology and introduces a picture of the world of adult literacy today. Sharing the authors' extensive experiences gained during more than 20 years of work on adult literacy and numeracy in development contexts, with ... more »emphasis on the value of case studies, the book presents literacy and numeracy as social practices. The authors explore relationships between the teaching and learning of literacy and numeracy, as well as literacy practices in daily life. Implications for practice and policy are connected to the theoretical and research directions in the field internationally, and discussions of ethnography, literacy, learning, and development issues are woven through the text. The book is based on adult learning programs in the context of 'developing societies,' but it also draws on, and is relevant to, adult literacy and numeracy in the West, especially the US and the UK.« less