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de Souza, Lynn Mario T. Menezes – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2002
Discusses the conflict between local knowledges and global knowledges in the specific case of indigenous literacy in northwestern Brazil, where global knowledges are represented by the ideological theories of literacy and utilitarian models of writing, and local knowledges are represented by the multimodal texts produced by the Kashinawa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, Indigenous Populations, Literacy