You may already have heard about this webinar which BALID and the UEA UNESCO Chair are co-hosting on 18th November. As friends of Brian, we thought you might like to participate and do feel free to invite others too.

We hope that the theme (decolonising literacy) provides an opportunity to take forward current debates in relation to Brian’s discussions on autonomous/ideological models of literacy, and of course, his doctoral research which has recently been republished, ‘The Savage in Literature’.

Look forward to seeing you on the 18th!

All best wishes

Anna

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Register: www.bit.ly/decolonisingliteracy

 

 

Literacy has been dominantly framed as an inescapable prerequisite for individuals and communities to develop, progress and modernise. Resources and policy responses, often coming from and modelled on approaches in countries of the Global North, have consequently been dedicated to the ‘literacy challenge’ in the Global South. Scant recognition of rural/urban differences has also had a major impact on adult literacy engagement.

Brian Street’s pioneering work on literacy as a social practice challenged the assumption that reading and writing are neutral skills, offering a lens to explore the transfer, imposition and/or resistance of literacy ideologies and values from one (dominant) culture to another.

For the fourth Brian Street Memorial Event, we invite academics, policy-makers and practitioners to engage in a conversation on decolonising literacy research, teaching and practice. Taking ‘decolonising literacy’ as our starting point, we explore some of the questions raised by Brian Street around power, voice, identity and literacy: ‘Where are people going if they take on one literacy rather than another literacy? How do you challenge the dominant conceptions of literacy?’ (Street, 2001:9)

 

Register: www.bit.ly/decolonisingliteracy

 

This event is co-hosted by BALID (British Association for Literacy and Development) and
the UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation at the University of East Anglia

 

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