Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community

✍ Scribed by David Barton

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 318
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

' Local Literacies presents complex ideas, mixing debates from linguistics, social history and cultural studies; yet it is written with enviable clarity ...Anyone interested in literacy education needs to read this book.' - Jane Mace, South Bank University

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