Literacy, social identity and difference in Newtown and Bellville South

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dc.contributor.advisorHenning, Snymanen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMalan, Liezlen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-11T20:08:12Z
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dc.date.issued1998en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. [274]-285.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation uses ethnographic material to critique South African adult literacy policy. Recent policy documents, I show identify people who lack six years of formal schooling, and particularly people in this position who are also classified as blacks, women and people in rural areas, as being in a deficit position. Not only are they regarded as illiterate and therefore having a technical deficit, but policy documents also describe their "illiteracy" as a marker of their social deficit as marginalised people. Policy makers argue that the deficit attributed to adult literacy target populations can be effectively redressed through formal literacy interventions. I indicate that policy makers' arguments are based on interpretations of statistics .that fail to reflect the complex forms of literacy and the multiple social identities of people in the "target population" and also on a theoretical approach to literacy and which dichotomizes the cognitive, social, cultural and linguistic attributes of "oral/illiterate" people and those of "literate" people.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMalan, L. (1998). <i>Literacy, social identity and difference in Newtown and Bellville South</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9566en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMalan, Liezl. <i>"Literacy, social identity and difference in Newtown and Bellville South."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9566en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMalan, L. 1998. Literacy, social identity and difference in Newtown and Bellville South. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Malan, Liezl AB - This dissertation uses ethnographic material to critique South African adult literacy policy. Recent policy documents, I show identify people who lack six years of formal schooling, and particularly people in this position who are also classified as blacks, women and people in rural areas, as being in a deficit position. Not only are they regarded as illiterate and therefore having a technical deficit, but policy documents also describe their "illiteracy" as a marker of their social deficit as marginalised people. Policy makers argue that the deficit attributed to adult literacy target populations can be effectively redressed through formal literacy interventions. I indicate that policy makers' arguments are based on interpretations of statistics .that fail to reflect the complex forms of literacy and the multiple social identities of people in the "target population" and also on a theoretical approach to literacy and which dichotomizes the cognitive, social, cultural and linguistic attributes of "oral/illiterate" people and those of "literate" people. DA - 1998 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1998 T1 - Literacy, social identity and difference in Newtown and Bellville South TI - Literacy, social identity and difference in Newtown and Bellville South UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9566 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/9566
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMalan L. Literacy, social identity and difference in Newtown and Bellville South. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies, 1998 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9566en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentAfrikaans and Netherlandic Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherAfrikaans and Netherlandic Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleLiteracy, social identity and difference in Newtown and Bellville Southen_ZA
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