Description: Acknowledgements Foreword by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Introduction: What is Literacy? Part 1: Theoretical Frameworks 1 Literacy: In Search of a Paradigm Part 2: Literacy and Development Issues 2 Literacy and Nation-State 3 Literacy and Social Development 4 The Role of Mass Literacy Campaigns in Social Development: Some Lessons from the Past Part 3: Globalisation: The Implications of Technological Development, Social and Cultural Change for Concepts and Definitions of Literacy 5 Technological and Cultural Transformations 6 Changing Definitions of 'Text' within the Information Society 7 Conceptualising Literacy, Knowledge and Power in the Information Society 8 Towards a 'Communicative Competence' for Democratic Participation in the Information Society Bibliography Index

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