TY - BOOK ID - 77937778 TI - The social uses of literacy AU - Prinsloo, Mastin AU - Breier, Mignonne PY - 1996 SN - 1556193203 1283222361 9786613222367 9027282994 9789027282996 9781556193200 1556193211 9781556193217 9027217963 9789027217967 0636027511 9780636027510 9027217955 9789027217950 9781283222365 6613222364 PB - Bertsham, South Africa Philadelphia Sached Books J. Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Literacy KW - Adult education KW - Education and state KW - Popular education KW - Critical theory KW - Non-formal education KW - Community education KW - Critical pedagogy KW - Adults, Education of KW - Education of adults KW - Education KW - Continuing education KW - Open learning KW - Illiteracy KW - General education KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77937778 AB - This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal education, but as social practices embedded in specific contexts, discourses and positions. What this means is made clear through a series of fine-grained accounts of social uses and meanings of literacy in contexts ranging from the taxi industry in Cape Town, to family farms, urban settlements and displacement sites, rural land holdings, and various sites during the 1994 ele ER -