Talk, text and technology : literacy and social practice in a remote indigenous community / Inge Kra...
Talk, text and technology : literacy and social practice in a remote indigenous community / Inge Kra...
Talk, text and technology : literacy and social practice in a remote indigenous community / Inge Kral.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Bristol, U.K. : Multilingual Matters, 2012.
Date
2012.
Call Numbers
302.24409/1
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MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
xviii, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Practice-Based Ethnography -- The Evolution of a Social Practice Approach to Literacy -- A Social Theory of Learning -- Language Socialisation -- An Ethnography of Changing Social Practice in the Ngaanyatjarra World -- Structure of the Book -- Introducing the Ngaanya...
Contents note continued: Conflicting Values and Practices -- Conclusion -- 4.Everything was Different because of the Changing -- Ǹative Welfare Time': Literacy and the State Narrative of Advancement -- Education for Unemployment -- Everything was Different -- G̀overnment Time': Self-Determining Pra...
Contents note continued: 7.You Fellas Grow up in a Different World -- Altered Developmental Trajectories -- New Technologies, New Modes of Communication -- Adaptive Learning -- Linguistic Creativity -- Styling the New -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Changing Social Practice: The Ontological Shift --...
Publication information
Publisher
Bristol, U.K. : Multilingual Matters, 2012.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2012.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Australian
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This study traces one Indigenous group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy in the 1930s to the recent arrival of digital literacies and new media. This innovative work examines changing social, cultural and linguistic practices ac...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Talk, text and technology : literacy and social practice in a remote indigenous community / Inge Kral.
Portion of title
Literacy and social practice in a remote indigenous community.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Critical language and literacy studies ; 14.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
302.24409/1
Record Identifier
74Vv4O8PP8Ld
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv4O8PP8Ld
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ISBN
9781847697608 (ebook)
9781847697592 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781847697585 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
302.2/2440994
MMS ID
991015440079702626
