Literacy in the Lives of Working-Class Adults in Australia
Dominant versus Local Voices
Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 26 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350378117
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Long description:
Adopting a 'social practice' approach to literacy research based on ethnographic methods, this book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults in Australia. It explores how groups of working-class adults can manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives by drawing on social networks of support. It is based on research conducted by the author over a forty-year career in adult literacy education, featuring the voices of varied adult groups, including: prisoners, the long-term unemployed, local council workers, manufacturing workers, adult literacy students, marginalised young people, vocational students, and patients living with a chronic illness (type 2 diabetes).
Each chapter explains how dominant society views these adult groups in relation to literacy, and provides a qualitative examination at the local level of how members of these groups manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives.
Table of Contents:
Series Foreword
Abbreviations
1. Literacy, Politics and Working-Class Adults
2. Prisoners and Literacy
3. Long-Term Unemployed People and Literacy
4. Local Council Workers and Literacy
5. Production Workers and Literacy
6. Adult Literacy Students and Literacy
7. Marginalised Young People and Literacy
8. Vocational Education and Training Students and Literacy
9. Diabetes Patients and Literacy
10. Countering Deficit
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