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| author | Strawn, Clare Monama, Geraldine |
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| contents | Making Soweto Stories: Photovoice Meets the New Literacy Studies Strawn, Clare Monama, Geraldine Active Learning Adult Literacy Foreign Countries Community Development Economic Development Student Projects Literacy Education Creativity Teaching Methods International Cooperation Females Researchers Program Descriptions Photography African Languages Language Role Adult literacy is a crucial element of community and economic development in South Africa and many developing countries striving to meet Millennium Development Goals. However, few governments invest the recommended 6% of education budgets on programmes for adults. Without resources, volunteer educators and international supporters rely on their own creativity to generate project-based learning. Freirian pedagogy and the New Literacy Studies, which theorizes literacy practices grounded in the meaning of daily life, inform this study. This article documents a photovoice project for literacy development in Soweto, South Africa. The project was an initiative stemming from international and cross-cultural collaboration between two women, Geraldine Monama, the literacy coordinator at Orlando East library in Soweto, and Strawn, a community development and adult literacy researcher from the United States. We report what we learned from the project and details of the collaborative process to support similar efforts. (Contains 6 notes and 5 figures.) |
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| spellingShingle | Making Soweto Stories: Photovoice Meets the New Literacy Studies Strawn, Clare Monama, Geraldine Active Learning Adult Literacy Foreign Countries Community Development Economic Development Student Projects Literacy Education Creativity Teaching Methods International Cooperation Females Researchers Program Descriptions Photography African Languages Language Role Making Soweto Stories: Photovoice Meets the New Literacy Studies Strawn, Clare Monama, Geraldine Active Learning Adult Literacy Foreign Countries Community Development Economic Development Student Projects Literacy Education Creativity Teaching Methods International Cooperation Females Researchers Program Descriptions Photography African Languages Language Role Adult literacy is a crucial element of community and economic development in South Africa and many developing countries striving to meet Millennium Development Goals. However, few governments invest the recommended 6% of education budgets on programmes for adults. Without resources, volunteer educators and international supporters rely on their own creativity to generate project-based learning. Freirian pedagogy and the New Literacy Studies, which theorizes literacy practices grounded in the meaning of daily life, inform this study. This article documents a photovoice project for literacy development in Soweto, South Africa. The project was an initiative stemming from international and cross-cultural collaboration between two women, Geraldine Monama, the literacy coordinator at Orlando East library in Soweto, and Strawn, a community development and adult literacy researcher from the United States. We report what we learned from the project and details of the collaborative process to support similar efforts. (Contains 6 notes and 5 figures.) |
| title | Making Soweto Stories: Photovoice Meets the New Literacy Studies |
| topic | Active Learning Adult Literacy Foreign Countries Community Development Economic Development Student Projects Literacy Education Creativity Teaching Methods International Cooperation Females Researchers Program Descriptions Photography African Languages Language Role |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ980545 |