Literacy and the Politics of Representation

By:

Mary Hamilton

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Hardback

Series:

Literacies

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Literacy is a key indicator for comparing individuals and nations in contemporary society. It is central to public debates about the nature of the public sphere, economic markets, citizenship and self-governance. Literacy and the Politics of Representation aims to uncover the constructed nature of public understandings of literacy by examining detailed examples of how literacy is represented in a range of public contexts. It looks at the ways in which knowledge about literacy is created and distributed, the location and relative power of the knowledge-makers, and examines the different semiotic resources used in such representations: images and metaphors, numerical and statistical models, and textual narratives and how they are related to one another. The book focuses on the UK from 1970 to the present, but includes a range of international comparisons and examples. In addition, exemplar chapters offer a model of analysis that can be used to deconstruct the representations of social policy issues. This book is vital reading for postgraduate students in the areas of education studies, literacy, discourse analysis and multimodality.

Author Biography:

Mary Hamilton is Professor of Adult Learning and Literacy in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, U.K; Associate Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre and a founder member of the Research and Practice in Adult Literacy (RaPAL) network. She researches, publishes and teaches in the field of literacy Studies, discourse, policy and change.

Release date NZ

July 19th, 2012

Author

Mary Hamilton

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

3 Tables, black and white

Pages

178

Series

Literacies

ISBN-13

9780415686150

Product ID

10853899

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