This study investigates literacy practices and events, including orality and storytelling, within the social and cultural context of a rural village in Rwanda, referred to as Agace. The study employs ethnographic principles and methods to explore participants’ experiences and perspectives related to literacy practices in the local public school and homes within the village, and how multiple literacies, specifically orality and storytelling, influence school and community practices. The theoretical framework for this study considers The New Literacy Studies (NLS) theory of literacy as a social practice (Barton & Hamilton, 1998; Collins & Blot, 2003; Heath, 1983; Street, 1984/1995), research on the plurality of literacies (Gee, 1996; Street 1...
The underdevelopment of effective adult literacy programs in Northern Kenya is a problem that must b...
This paper explores the uses of literacy in a rural area in a developing country, and applies the en...
Taking a view of literacy as a communicative practice, in which a learned skill is applied by indivi...
This study investigates literacy practices and events, including orality and storytelling, within th...
Following a growing concern among education stakeholders about the lack of a reading culture and low...
This study has investigated the question of relation between literacy practices in and out of school...
This study has investigated the question of relation between literacy practices in and out of school...
In 2007 Uganda launched a new curriculum called the thematic curriculum that emphasizes the use of h...
Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people’s everyday ...
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.This was a study of rural community literac...
In many countries, educational policies typically mandate school activities that promote a homogeneo...
1990 was International Literacy Year. A decade later, both our essential understandings of what 'lit...
This study aims to investigate what counts as literacy in Windhoek urban pre-and primary schools in ...
Various studies on literacy have been conducted worldwide, but there is paucity of studies that expl...
Everyday home literacy practices of bilingual students who are learning English as an Additional Lan...
The underdevelopment of effective adult literacy programs in Northern Kenya is a problem that must b...
This paper explores the uses of literacy in a rural area in a developing country, and applies the en...
Taking a view of literacy as a communicative practice, in which a learned skill is applied by indivi...
This study investigates literacy practices and events, including orality and storytelling, within th...
Following a growing concern among education stakeholders about the lack of a reading culture and low...
This study has investigated the question of relation between literacy practices in and out of school...
This study has investigated the question of relation between literacy practices in and out of school...
In 2007 Uganda launched a new curriculum called the thematic curriculum that emphasizes the use of h...
Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people’s everyday ...
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.This was a study of rural community literac...
In many countries, educational policies typically mandate school activities that promote a homogeneo...
1990 was International Literacy Year. A decade later, both our essential understandings of what 'lit...
This study aims to investigate what counts as literacy in Windhoek urban pre-and primary schools in ...
Various studies on literacy have been conducted worldwide, but there is paucity of studies that expl...
Everyday home literacy practices of bilingual students who are learning English as an Additional Lan...
The underdevelopment of effective adult literacy programs in Northern Kenya is a problem that must b...
This paper explores the uses of literacy in a rural area in a developing country, and applies the en...
Taking a view of literacy as a communicative practice, in which a learned skill is applied by indivi...