Literacy and numeracy in Latin America : local perspectives and beyond / edited by Judy Kalman, Brian Street.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalman, Judy.

Street, Brian V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Latin America.

Literacy.

Numeracy--Latin America.

Numeracy.

Education--Social aspects--Latin America.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives. Calling upon social practice approaches, New Literacy Studies, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and other paradigms, the contributors identify both convergent and divergent literacy and numeracy issues within the region as well as beyond the Latin American context. Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America moves the field forward by bringing LALNS into wider focus and helping readers to understand the synergy with work from other perspectives and from other parts of the world and the implications for theory and practice. A lack of translated work until now between Latin America and, in particular, the UK, US, and Europe, has meant that such important overlaps between areas of study have gone unappreciated. In this way this volume is the first of its kind, a significant and original contribution to the field"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America: Local Perspectives and Beyond; PART I Latin American Literacies: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches; 2 The Local and the Global in Literacy Practices in "Traditional Communities": Letramento: Only a Neologism?; 3 Access to Written Culture as Part of the Social Reproduction Strategies of Rural Families in Córdoba (Argentina); 4 A Multimodal Approach to the Understanding of Students' Collaborative Writing of Digital Texts

PART II Literacy and Numeracy as Social Practice: Latin American Perspectives5 GPS Technology, Map Reading, and Everyday Location Practices in a Fishing Community; 6 When Illiterate isn't Illiterate. Reading Reality in a Multimodal Way; 7 Indexical Signs within Local and Global Contexts: Case Studies of Changes in Literacy Practices across Generations of Working Class Families in Brazil; 8 Survival of Original Knowledge; PART III Literacy and Numeracy in Education: Experiences in Latin America; 9 When Literacy Brings Too Many Risks: A Successful Lesson in Failure

10 The Brazilian Landless Movement and a Mathematics Education Research Program11 Reading, Writing, and Experience: Literacy Practices of Young Rural Students; 12 Technology and Literacy: Towards a Situated Comprehension of a Mexican Teacher's Actions; 13 Preambles, Questions, and Commentaries: Teaching Genres and the Oral Mediation of Literacy; 14 Learning English in Mexico: Transnational Language Ideologies and Practices; Afterword: The Threat of a Good Example: How Ethnographic Case Studies Challenge Dominant Discourses; About the Editors and Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 14, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-66429-7

0-203-80779-0

1-136-66430-0

9780203807798

OCLC:

845254229