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Literacy in the Lives of Working-Class Adults in Australia: Dominant versus Local Voices

Literacy in the Lives of Working-Class Adults in Australia: Dominant versus Local Voices

Black, Stephen

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Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change

General Education

ISBN10: 1350378119
ISBN13: 9781350378117
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jun 26 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Adopting a 'social practice' approach to literacy research based on ethnographic methods, this book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults in Australia. It explores how groups of working-class adults can manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives by drawing on social networks of support. It is based on research conducted by the author over a forty-year career in adult literacy education, featuring the voices of varied adult groups, including: prisoners, the long-term unemployed, local council workers, manufacturing workers, adult literacy students, marginalised young people, vocational students, and patients living with a chronic illness (type 2 diabetes).

Each chapter explains how dominant society views these adult groups in relation to literacy, and provides a qualitative examination at the local level of how members of these groups manage the literacy practices of their everyday lives.

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