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More Powerful Literacies
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Foreword (David Barton). 1. More Powerful Literacies: An introduction (Mary Hamilton, Lyn Tett and Jim Crowther). Section one: Theoretical and policy frameworks: 2. Contexts for literacy work: New literacy studies, multimodality, and the 'local and the global' (Brian Street); 3. More Powerful Literacies: The policy context (Mary Hamilton and Lyn Tett). Section two: Making power visible: 4. Signatures and the lettered world (Jane Mace); 5. Beyond disempowering counts: Mapping a fruitful future for adult literacies (Tannis Atkinson); 6. Power and positioning in writing: Exploring issues of authorship and authority (Amy Burgess); 7. Form-filling, power and the ILP: Tensions and tutor strategies in one adult literacy classroom (Sandra Varey and Karin Tusting); 8. Learning literacy for citizenship and democracy (Jim Crowther and Lyn Tett). Section three: Resistance and challenges: 9. Affective power: Exploring the concept of learning care in the context of adult literacy (Maggie Feeley); 10. Empowerment in educational processes: Feminist re-appropriations (Malini Ghose and Disha Mullick); 11. Transnational migrants in the workplace: Agency and opportunity (Judy Hunter); 12. The Glory and Dismay Football Literacies Programme (GDFLP) (John Player); 13. ESOL learners online: New media as a site of identity negotiation (James Simpson and Richard Gresswell); 14. Using Scots literacy in family literacy work (Alan F.P. Addison). Contributors. Index

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Lyn Tett is Professor of Community Education at the University of Huddersfield and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Mary Hamilton is Professor of Adult Learning and Literacy at Lancaster University. Jim Crowther is Senior Lecturer in Community Education at the University of Edinburgh

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