Privileged Literacies: Policy, Institutional Process and the Life of the IALS  

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Hamilton, Mary

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 15 no. 2-3 (2001), page 178-196.
Fulltext: Vol. 15, No. 2&3, p 178-196.pdf (245.49KB)

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This paper argues that in order to make use of the theoretical insights offered by the New LiteracyStudies we need to understandmore about how institutions produce and privilege certainkinds of knowing – and how, in this process, they devalue or re-define the local and the vernacular for their own purposes. The specific example of the InternationalAdult LiteracySurvey (IALS) is used to showhow a powerful discourse develops and can organise our knowledge about literacy. The paper presents some theoreticaltools thatmight help us analyse the processwhereby this happens. In particular, it explores the potential of Actor–NetworkTheory (ANT) as an analytical tool. The paper concludes that ANT demonstrates the contingent and precarious way in which social order is created and offers hope that this order can be effectively challenged by alternative projects such as that offered by the NLS.

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