Exploring the Literacy Environment: A Case Study from Urban Senegal

Autor/in	Shiohata, Mariko
Titel	Exploring the Literacy Environment: A Case Study from Urban Senegal
Quelle	In: Comparative Education Review, 54 (2010) 2, S.243-269 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-4086
DOI	10.1086/651451
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Literacy; Case Studies; Educational Quality; Instructional Materials; Educational Resources; Disadvantaged Environment; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Educational Development; Sociolinguistics; Language Usage; Socioeconomic Background; Ethnology; Senegal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Bildungsmittel; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Bildungsentwicklung; Soziolinguistik; Sprachgebrauch; Sozioökonomische Lage; Ethnologie
Abstract	The low literacy rates in developing countries have been repeatedly problematized as a major constraint to socioeconomic development by education planners and policy makers. In the 1950s and 1960s, the dominant rationale for literacy development was one of promoting economic growth. In more recent years, by contrast, literacy has increasingly come to be recognized as a human right, contributing to political participation, gender equality, and so forth. Another issue concerning literacy, frequently overlooked, is that people in low-income countries are often deprived of reading and writing materials--even dictionaries in their own languages. Resources are generally very scarce. This article presents a research which explores the literacy environment in an urban Senegalese context by presenting a comparative perspective on the distribution, the types, and the quality of literacy materials such as books and posters. (Contains 4 tables and 11 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10