Editor: Viv Edwards (University of Reading, UK)
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Volume: 18 Number: 4 Page: 331–335
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On the Material Consequences of Literacy
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Allan Luke
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Research in the ethnography of literacy has led to a stronger focus on literacy as a social practice among researchers and educators. How literacy is ideological and how it is linked to issues of institutional structure and power needs more systematic focus, particularly in the contexts
of rapid and unprecedented economic, cultural and sociodemographic change affiliated with globalisation. A case is made for a refocus on the material consequences of literacy including an understanding of literate practice, capital and exchange, both local and transnational.
Keywords: LITERACY, ETHNOGRAPHY, GLOBALISATION, CAPITAL, PRACTICES
© 2004 Multilingual Matters
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