- 343 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
While many books have been written about basic literacy, few offer detailed information on how to plan and carry out a community literacy project. Fewer still give guidance in tackling the additional barriers of language, culture, and logistics in developing countries and in treating the local community as an active partner rather than a passive recipient in the literacy process. In Local Literacies: Theory and Practice, Glenys Waters includes these elements and presents a practical guide for developing a literacy program.
Beginning with a discussion of the theories of learning and reading, the author provides a detailed description of how to plan and organize a literacy program when the practitioner has little to go on but wit, knowledge, and determination. With approximately one half of the book given to the development of instructional methods and materials in reading, writing, and basic math, Local Literacies will be especially helpful to those doing literacy work in linguistically diverse settings in much of the developing world.
The reader will quickly discover that this is a book written by a person who has "been there and done that." Waters has spent more than twenty years in Australia and Papua New Guinea, both as a practitioner and a consultant in programs of literacy for adults and children. This personal experience, plus a thorough knowledge of the professional literature, makes Local Literacies a "must" for the pioneering literacy worker.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 How Learning Takes Place
- 2 The Learning Context
- 3 Planning a Literacy Programme
- 4 Reading
- 5 Reading Readiness
- 6 Principles of Primer Construction
- 7 Phonics, Syllable, Word, and Sentence Approaches
- 8 Whole Language Approaches
- 9 Integrated Approaches
- 10 Whole Language Approaches
- 11 Materials Production
- 12 Teaching Writing
- 13 Mathematics
- 14 What Is Literacy
- References
- Index