Original paper
Limits of the Local: Expanding Perspectives on Literacy as a Social Practice
Abstract
This essay reflects on how the social practice model of literacy, an approach that defines reading and writing as situated, social practices, under-theorizes certain aspects of literacy, making it hard to account fully for its workings in local contexts. We trace this theoretical blind spot to the ways that the social practice model was formulated as a challenge to the “Great Divide” or “autonomous” models of literacy. We suggest that in...
Paper Details
Title
Limits of the Local: Expanding Perspectives on Literacy as a Social Practice
Published Date
Sep 1, 2002
Journal
Volume
34
Issue
3
Pages
337 - 356
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