Literacy in the Lives of Working-Class Adults in Australia: Dominant Versus Local Voices

by Stephen Black

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350378100
• ISBN13: 9781350378100
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"