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Learning, literacy, and identity
Author(s) -
Tett Lyn
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
new directions for adult and continuing education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0717
pISSN - 1052-2891
DOI - 10.1002/ace.176
Subject(s) - literacy , identity (music) , adult literacy , adult education , pedagogy , sociology , literacy education , adult learning , family literacy , critical literacy , psychology , aesthetics , philosophy
Assumptions about learner identity are often based on a deficit view of the working classes. This chapter illustrates an alternative discourse that shows how one family literacy program in Scotland generated useful knowledge.