LITERACY AND THE PRACTICE OF WRITING IN THE 19TH CENTURY by Ursula Howard ( 9781862015647 )

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LITERACY AND THE PRACTICE OF WRITING IN THE 19TH CENTURY
'A STRANGE BLOSSOMING OF SPIRIT'

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1862015643

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9781862015647

Publisher:

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION

Pub. date:

30 August, 2012

Pages:

256

Synopsis:

A history of learning and literacy in nineteenth-century England, based on documentary and qualitative evidence, this book explores people's desire to learn, their ways of learning and practising writing and what meaning writing had for them at a time when there was little or no state education available. Those who learned and used writing skills before state education had practices, purposes and beliefs in common, including a consciousness of the social nature and purposes of learning, and the sense that writing skill is a powerful asset in enabling the development and exercise of human agency. Howard therefore addresses questions which lie at the heart of much literacy scholarship: are people who cannot write less able to organise and change their lives? Is writing fundamental to empowerment and self-realisation, for individuals and for communities? If so, when and in which circumstances did this become the case?

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