Book Review: Studies of Everyday Literacy Practices and Case-Study Methodology

Autor: David Bloome, Sheila Otto
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Journal of Literacy Research. 32:129-139
ISSN: 1554-8430
1086-296X
Popis: Everyday Literacies is a research study describing the varied literacy practices of four adolescents in Brisbane, Australia during 1994, but it also outlines a theory of literacy and a research methodology that the author, Michele Knobel, believes can help illuminate people's everyday literacy practices. Knobel's research for Everyday Literacies was historically situated alongside a movement to set national academic literacy standards in Australia. Standards setting, Knobel argues, generally involves discussion about what students should know, while ignoring or devaluing the knowledge and understanding they bring with them to the classroom. In an attempt to understand both the range of literacy practices in which young people engage in their everyday lives and how those practices intersect with the
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