About this title: Reading Work explores changing understandings of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. It points to new questions and dilemmas to consider in planning and teaching workplace education. By taking a social perspective on literacies in the workplace, this book challenges traditional thinking about workplace literacy as functional skills, and enables readers to see the complexity of literacy practices and their embeddedness in culture, knowledge and action. A mixture of ethnographic studies, analysis, and personal reflections makes these ideas accessible and relevant to a ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780805846225ISBN:0805846220
Description: Good. First Edition. Like new except for extensive yellow highlighting throughout. Helps to bridge the divide between theory and practice in the field of workplace education. Includes bibliographic references and index. Your purchase benefits world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780805846225ISBN:0805846220
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. Combines collaborative studies of literacies in use in four workplace settings with analysis, relevant theory, and discussion of what can be learned from the research. focuses on how people make sense of texts at work. reading work: literacies in the new workplace explores changing understandings of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. it points to new questions and dilemmas to consider in planning and teaching workplace education. by taking a social ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780805846218ISBN:0805846212
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. Combines collaborative studies of literacies in use in four workplace settings with analysis, relevant theory, and discussion of what can be learned from the research. focuses on how people make sense of texts at work. reading work: literacies in the new workplace explores changing understandings of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. it points to new questions and dilemmas to consider in planning and teaching workplace education. by taking a social ... read more
Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
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