Interdisciplinary approaches to literacy and development
Interdisciplinary approaches to literacy and development

Author: Kaushik Basu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 131799065X

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The links between literacy and development have been the focus of research conducted by both economists and anthropologists. Yet researchers from these different disciplines have tended to work in isolation from each other. This book aims to create a space for new interdisciplinary debate in this area, through bringing together contributions on literacy and development from the fields of education, literacy studies, anthropology and economics. The book extends our theoretical understanding on the ways in which people’s acquisition and uses of literacy influence changes in agency, identity, social practice and labour market and other outcomes. The chapters discuss data from diverse cultural contexts (South Africa, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Peru, and Mexico), and from contrasting research paradigms. The contributors examine the significance of culture and socio-economic contexts in shaping such processes. As such, they contribute to our understanding of the role of literacy in processes of poverty reduction, and its importance to people’s capabilities and wellbeing. The themes covered include: the dynamics of literacy use in the production of agency, the enactment, negotiation and embodiment of new social identities - including gendered and religious identities; the impacts of literate identities and use on institutional relations and social participation; the dynamics of literacy ‘sharing’ and their externalities within and beyond households; formal analysis of the impacts of proximate illiteracy on labour market and health outcomes across men and women and social contexts. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology
Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology

Author: Floretta Boonzaier

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-13

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 3030200019

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This edited volume seeks to critically engage with the diversity of feminist and post-colonial theory to counter hegemonic Western knowledge in mainstream community psychology. In doing so, it situates paradigms of thought and representation that capture the lived experiences of those in the global South. Specifically, the book takes an intersectional approach towards its reshaping of community psychology, centering African, black, postcolonial, and decolonial feminist critiques in its 1) critique of existing hegemonic Euro-American community psychology concepts, theories, and practice, 2) proposal of new feminist, indigenous, and decolonial methodological approaches, and 3) real-life examples of engagement, research, dialogue, and reflexive qualitative psychology practice. The book concludes with an agenda for theorization and research for future practice in postcolonial contexts. The volume is relevant to researchers, practitioners, and students in psychology, anthropology, sociology, public health, development studies, social work, urban studies, and women’s and gender studies across global contexts.

International Handbook of Early Childhood Education
International Handbook of Early Childhood Education

Author: Marilyn Fleer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 1613

ISBN-13: 9402409270

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This international handbook gives a comprehensive overview of findings from longstanding and contemporary research, theory, and practices in early childhood education in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The first volume of the handbook addresses theory, methodology, and the research activities and research needs of particular regions. The second volume examines in detail innovations and longstanding programs, curriculum and assessment, and conceptions and research into child, family and communities. The two volumes of this handbook address the current theory, methodologies and research needs of specific countries and provide insight into existing global similarities in early childhood practices. By paying special attention to what is happening in the larger world contexts, the volumes provide a representative overview of early childhood education practices and research, and redress the current North-South imbalance of published work on the subject.

Care and Agency
Care and Agency

Author: Jeanine Anderson

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2024-10-11

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1978840756

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Andean communities occupy a special place in the history of anthropology, having given shape to fundamental theories of kinship, peasant economics, Indigenous medical systems, ritual life and others. Yet children have been shortchanged in research and theory building. Care and Agency, based on detailed ethnographies of six towns in the province of Yauyos, restores children to a central research position. Contemporary children’s studies emphasize children’s agency and autonomy, and these take surprising forms under the conditions of the rural Andes. At the same time, the book incorporates and extends current discussions of caregiving and its organization in human societies. Children in the Andes are involved in the care of each other, of adults, of animals, of the environment. The activities, sociality, and subjective states of children of different ages, genders, and social strata are variable in ways that make it impossible to speak of a single Andean childhood. The future they face is also uncertain, as the Peruvian nation stumbles through cycles of incompetent government whose common thread is the neglect of small-scale family farming and the welfare of rural populations. This book is a fascinating look at Andean childhood for anyone interested in the lives of children.

Going to School in Latin America
Going to School in Latin America

Author: Silvina Gvirtz

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2007-12-30

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0313081336

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Latin America has tremendous diversity geographically, politically, and demographically. Some countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile, enjoy a time of peace and growing prosperity, while other countries such as Bolivia and Columbia are struggling with government and economic issues. This volume examines the history and present educational systems, both public and private, of approximately 15 countries in the Latin American region, along with a day in the life feature that shows what the school day is like from the students' point of view.

Gran Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos: Volumen 5
Gran Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos: Volumen 5

Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 1131

ISBN-13: 8577776220

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Este libro contiene 70 cuentos de 10 autores clásicos, premiados y notables. Los cuentos fueron cuidadosamente seleccionados por el crítico August Nemo, en una colección que encantará a los amantes de la literatura. Para lo mejor de la literatura mundial, asegúrese de consultar los otros libros de Tacet Books. Este libro contiene: Ryunosuke Akutagawa: - Rashomon. - En el Bosque. - Sennin. - Kappa. - La Nariz. - Cuerpo de Mujer. - El Gran Terremoto.Ambrose Bierce: - El incidente del Puente del Búho. - El caso del desfiladero de Coulter. - Un habitante de Carcosa. - El monje y la hija del verdugo. - Un habitante de Carcosa. - Chickamauga. - Una tumba sin fondo.Mijaíl Bulgákov: - Bautismo de fuego. - La erupción estrelada. - La garganta de acero. - La toalla con el gallo rojo. - Morfina. - Tinieblas egípcias. - Un ojo desaparecido.Lewis Carroll: - Lo que la tortuga le dijo a Aquiles. - El bosque donde las cosas pierden el nombre. - Carrera en comité. - Como al principio. - Moverse del lado del espejo. - Resta. - Tratar con el tempo.Arthur Conan Doyle: - Un escándalo en Bohemia. - El gato del Brasil. - El pie del diablo. - La aventura de las cinco semillas de naranja. - La aventura de un caso de identidade. - La aventura de la segunda mancha. - La aventura de la inquilina del velo.James Joyce: - Eveline. - Efemérides en el comité. - Arabia. - Después de la carrera. - Una nubecilla. - Dos galanes. - La pensión.Franz Kafka: - Un artista del hambre. - La colonia penitenciaria. - Un médico rural. - Una mujercita. - Una hoja vieja. - Las preocupaciones de un padre de familia. - La metamorfosis.H. P. Lovecraft: - La llamada de Cthulhu. - La música de Erich Zann. - El extraño. - Historia del Necronomicón. - La decisión de Randolph Carter. - El color que cayó del cielo. - El Terrible Anciano.Machado de Assis: - Misa de gallo. - Un hombre célebre. - Cántiga de los esponsales. - El reloj de oro. - Un apólogo. - La causa secreta. - El alienista.Guy de Maupassant: - Bola de Sebo. - El collar. - El Horla. - Ese cerdo de Morin. - La cama 29. - ¿Quién sabe? - Miss Harriet

Indigenous Education Policy, Equity, and Intercultural Understanding in Latin America
Indigenous Education Policy, Equity, and Intercultural Understanding in Latin America

Author: Regina Cortina

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-29

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1137595329

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This book is a comparative study of educational policies over the past two decades in Latin America. These policies, enacted through constitutional reforms, sought to protect the right of Indigenous peoples to a culturally inclusive education. The book assesses the impact of these policies on educational practice and the on-going challenges that countries still face in delivering an equitable and culturally responsive education to Indigenous children and youth. The chapters, each written by an expert in the field, demonstrate how policy changes are transforming education systems in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Going beyond the classroom, they highlight the significance of these reforms in promoting intercultural dialogue in Latin American societies.

The Writing in the Stars
The Writing in the Stars

Author: Rodney Williamson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0802090842

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Born in Mexico City in 1914, writer, poet, and diplomat Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, eight years before his death in 1998. The Writing in the Stars explores Paz's life and ideas by establishing a dialogue between the structure and recurring images of his major poems and the ideas of Carl Jung. Although other literary critics have pointed to Jungian concepts in Paz, a comprehensive study on the subject has yet to be undertaken. Rodney Williamson takes up this challenge, adopting a Jungian perspective to explore successive phases of Paz's poetry. Williamson illustrates how archetypal images infuse Paz's early poetry and his surrealist period and shows how the circular structure of Paz's longer poems, such as 'Piedra de sol' and 'Blanco,' are based on the Eastern sacred circle or mandala, a major archetype of psychic wholeness in Jung. He argues that a grasp of the psychological importance of Jung's archetypes is essential to understanding the various syntheses of creative truth and existence sought by Paz at different defining moments of his career as a poet. The Writing in the Stars will prove fascinating to anyone interested in Latin-American literature, Jungian psychology, or critical theory.