A Socio-cultural Perspective on School-based Literacy Research: Some Emerging Considerations

Autor:	Kelleen Toohey, Diane Dagenais, Anneke van Enk
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) Language and Linguistics Literacy Education Educational research Cultural diversity Reading (process) Pedagogy Cognitive skill Sociocultural evolution Psychology Everyday life media_common
Zdroj:	Language and Education. 19:496-512
ISSN:	1747-7581 0950-0782
DOI:	10.1080/09500780508668700
Popis:	Much research on reading and writing in schools continues to focus on individual cognitive skills. In contrast, investigations of literacy-learning in out-of-school settings have often taken a socio-cultural perspective, situating reading and writing in social relations and cultural institutions. The last 20 years have seen a proliferation of studies documenting the ways in which printed texts are taken up in a wide variety of settings from after-school clubs and community-based adult literacy programmes to workplaces, the Internet, and ‘everyday life’. Increasingly, there have been calls for sociocultural literacy researchers to begin directing their attention to mainstream educational contexts. In this paper, we join in and seek to contribute to such calls by drawing out some of the complexities and caveats that also need to be kept in mind. After briefly reviewing what it means to define literacy and learning in relation to socio-cultural context, we explore some recent arguments for conceptual and met...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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