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Book Synopsis The Social Uses of Literacy by : Mastin Prinsloo
Download or read book The Social Uses of Literacy written by Mastin Prinsloo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa challenges state-driven policy and provision in South Africa around the construction of a national delivery system for adult literacy that is part of a programme for Adult Basic Education. The implication is that many people who are the target of this system will be unwilling to participate at the entry point of literacy acquisition unless a reconceptualisation of the nature of literacy use by adults is made. Using fascinating and carefully documented case-study material, this book raises vital questions about literacy and illiteracy, and about adult education. Above all, it questions the efficacy of any literacy programme which fails to acknowledge the many ways in which uneducated and so called 'illiterate' people already use reading, writing and numeracy in their everyday lives.
Book Synopsis Oaky and the Virus by : Athol Williams
Download or read book Oaky and the Virus written by Athol Williams and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oaky and the Virus is an educational and fun story about acorns Oaky and Oaket. They learn how to avoid a virus when it comes to their town.
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Indigenous writing and literacies by :
Download or read book Perspectives on Indigenous writing and literacies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring writing and literacies across five continents, this volume celebrates the resilience of Indigenous languages. This book contributes to an understanding of contemporary challenges, while also demonstrating innovative and creative ideas for the future of Indigenous writing and literacies.
Book Synopsis The Social Uses of Literacy by : Mastin Prinsloo
Download or read book The Social Uses of Literacy written by Mastin Prinsloo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-10-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal education, but as social practices embedded in specific contexts, discourses and positions. What this means is made clear through a series of fine-grained accounts of social uses and meanings of literacy in contexts ranging from the taxi industry in Cape Town, to family farms, urban settlements and displacement sites, rural land holdings, and various sites during the 1994 elections, and among different sectors of South African society, Black, Colored and White. Since the view of literacy presented here is so dependent on context, the book provides not only descriptions of literacy practices but also rich insights into the complexity of everyday social life in contemporary South Africa at a major point of transition. It can be read as a concrete way of understanding the emergence of the New South Africa as it appears to actors on the ground, focused through attention to one central feature of contemporary life — the uses and meanings of literacy. “Using fascinating and carefully documented case-study material, this book raises vital questions about literacy and illiteracy, and about adult education. Above all, it questions the efficacy of any literacy programme which fails to acknowledge the many ways in which uneducated and so called ‘illiterate’ people already use reading, writing and numeracy in their everyday lives.” Jenny Maybin, The Open University, Milton Keynes
Book Synopsis Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society by : Albert Weideman
Download or read book Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society written by Albert Weideman and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African universities face major challenges in meeting the needs of their students in the area of academic language and literacy. The dominant medium of instruction in the universities is English and, to a much lesser extent, Afrikaans, but only a minority of the national population are native speakers of these languages. Nine other languages can be media of instruction in schools, which makes the transition to tertiary education difficult enough in itself for students from these schools. The focus of this book is on procedures for assessing the academic language and literacy levels and needs of students, not in order to exclude students from higher education but rather to identify those who would benefit from further development of their ability in order to undertake their degree studies successfully. The volume also aims to bring the innovative solutions designed by South African educators to a wider international audience.
Book Synopsis Systematic Reviews of Research in Basic Education in South Africa by : Felix Maringe
Download or read book Systematic Reviews of Research in Basic Education in South Africa written by Felix Maringe and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maringe ought to be commended for putting together an invaluable contribution to our understanding of research into a complex education system in South Africa. This volume provides a useful foundation to the current state of education quality in South Africa including the impact of interventions. It also brings to the fore challenges still facing education transformation. The evidence presented which, taken together, lays out a coherent view of how improvements could be made. Albert Chanee Head of Planning, Gauteng Department of Education For too long the weight of educational scholarship produced in South Africa has been limited to that simple and standard form called the literature review. Now, for the first time, education researchers are provided with an African-based text on the concepts and methods of conducting systematic reviews. In this exceptional work of editorship, Felix Maringe brings together some of the leading researchers on South African education to model and demonstrate how to review a significant body of research on a chosen topic which is adjudicated strictly on the basis of the quality and efficacy of the evidence in hand. I have no doubt that this remarkable book will become a standard reference for educational researchers in and beyond the African continent. It will also lift the quality of educational inquiry by equipping a new generation of scholars with the capacity for doing evidence-based research that compels the attention of policymakers, planners and practitioners alike. Prof Jonathan Jansen Stellenbosch University
Book Synopsis South Africa by : Steuart Pennington
Download or read book South Africa written by Steuart Pennington and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Write what I Like written by Steve Biko and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 12th September 1977, Steve Biko was murdered in his prison cell. He was only 31, but his vision and charisma - captured in this collection of his work - had already transformed the agenda of South African politics. This book covers the basic philosophy of black consciousness, Bantustans, African culture, the institutional church and Western involvement in apartheid.
Book Synopsis The Literacy Crisis by : Jeff McQuillan
Download or read book The Literacy Crisis written by Jeff McQuillan and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents statistical evidence to support the author's contention that children in the United States are reading at the same or a better level than they did a generation ago; and argues that the literacy crisis has been brought on not by poor achievement, but by a simple lack of books.
Book Synopsis The Promotion of Literacy in South Africa by : Edward French
Download or read book The Promotion of Literacy in South Africa written by Edward French and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Semiotics of New Spaces by : Charlyn Dyers
Download or read book The Semiotics of New Spaces written by Charlyn Dyers and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In South Africa, the township or sub-economic state housing development has achieved a very significant position as a site for sociolinguistic research. The Semiotics of New Spaces - Languaging and Literacy Practices in one South African Township looks at the ways in which people are responding, through their semiotic practices, to the intense socio-historical changes taking place in post'apartheid South Africa. The study is set against the backdrop of Wesbank - one of the first racially mixed housing developments in the Western Cape. The result is a range of related topics, such as how cross-cultural and cross-linguistic families influence the language practices of their younger members; the impact of translingual friendships on language practices and attitudes; the ways in which older people use their existing literacies to negotiate the multilingual realities of the township and aspects such as identity, voice and agency as markers of a developing participatory citizenship.
Book Synopsis Literacy and Democracy in South African Primary Schools by : Getahun Yacob Abraham
Download or read book Literacy and Democracy in South African Primary Schools written by Getahun Yacob Abraham and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides results from two extensive qualitative studies in South African primary school classrooms—the first on leadership qualities and voting, and the second from a project on writing to read. The work involves central themes of transformation in teaching practice with emphasis on the role of context.
Book Synopsis Decoloniality, Language and Literacy by : Carolyn McKinney
Download or read book Decoloniality, Language and Literacy written by Carolyn McKinney and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It addresses processes of knowledge production and participation in the highly divided and unequal schooling and higher education system in South Africa, and highlights the consequences of the monolingual myth in post-colonial education, demonstrating opportunities for learning provided by translanguaging. It explores both embodied, multimodal and multilingual instances of knowledge-making in teaching and teacher education that take place outside but alongside formal classroom, lecture and seminar modes, and the positionality and learning experiences of teacher educators in science, literacy and language across the curriculum. The book is not only transdisciplinary but also captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces.
Book Synopsis Tracking Changes in South African Reading Literacy Achievement by :
Download or read book Tracking Changes in South African Reading Literacy Achievement written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading has been touted as the most crucial and lacking skill for young South African children. This book delves into the issues and measurement considerations surrounding reading literacy using the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) data. The contributors to this volume explore the complexities of measuring reading literacy with an international survey, curricula misalignment, and how the PIRLS framework can inform teaching and learning. Contributors are: Caroline Böning, Celeste Combrinck, Peter Courtney, Martin Gustafsson, Nompumelelo L. Mohohlwane, Nangamso Mtsatse, Elizabeth Pretorius, Karen Roux, Claudia Schreiner, Tobias Schroedler, Nick Taylor, Stephen Taylor, Surette van Staden and Hans Wagemaker.
Book Synopsis Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Southern Africa by : Jonathan A. Draper
Download or read book Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Southern Africa written by Jonathan A. Draper and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy is essentially about the control of information, memory, and belief, and with colonialism in Southern Africa came the Bible and text-based literacy monitored by missionaries and colonial authorities. Old and new oral traditions, however, are beyond the control of empire and often carry the resistance, hopes, and dreams of colonized people. The essays in this volume recover aspects of Southern Africa's rich oral tradition. The authors, from disciplines such as anthropology, African literature, and biblical studies, delineate some of the contours of the indigenous knowledge systems which sustained resistance to colonialism and today provide resources for postapartheid society in Southern Africa. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
Book Synopsis Sustaining literacy in Africa: developing a literate environment by : Easton, Peter
Download or read book Sustaining literacy in Africa: developing a literate environment written by Easton, Peter and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contributes, in the critical context of Africa, to the conceptual development of the notion of the literate environment--an essential element for the promotion of literacy. It brings knowledge and insights about literate environments, highlighting inter-related issues such as its definitions, previous undertakings, methods of assessment as well as interactions between the supply and demand sides of environments.--
Book Synopsis The Promotion of Literacy in South Africa by : C. S. Ellis
Download or read book The Promotion of Literacy in South Africa written by C. S. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy trends among Black adults in the Republic of South Africa and in some Black states in southern Africa were determined from data obtained from population census reports from 1946 to 1970. Problems concerning the determination of literacy statistics included differing definitions of literacy and data that were subjective, difficult to compare, and unreliable. During the period studied, there was an increase in literacy which amounted to about one percent per annum. Literacy tended to be higher in urban areas than in rural areas and higher in white areas than in Black states. In urban areas the percentage of literate women was higher than that of literate men; the position was reversed in the rural areas. For the total Black population literacy among men was slightly higher than among women. Literacy was higher among lower age groups. The biggest increase in literacy was also in the lower age groups and among males. The promotion of literacy among all the identified groups was recommended. (Twenty-two tables and six graphs are appended.) (YLB)
