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Direct linkSemali, Ladislaus M.; Asino, Tutaleni I. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This article focuses on individuals emerging from traditional oral cultures with limited education and few economic resources who use mobile telephones to maintain their writing and communication skills, despite the scarcity of reading materials, or a lack of social, economic, political, and cultural incentives. Drawing on two case studies--one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Handheld Devices, Educational Practices
Papen, Uta – International Journal of Educational Development, 2005
This paper is concerned with the implications of a social view of literacy for the policy and practice of adult literacy. Taking the example of a recent literacy project in South Africa and comparing this with the author's own ethnographic research among learners from the National Literacy Programme in Namibia, the paper discusses the possible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education
