3. Power relations and the social construction of ‘literacy’ and ‘illiteracy’: the experience of Bangladeshi women in Birmingham

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Contributors xi
5. List of Figures xvii
6. List of Tables xxi
7. Foreword xxiii
8. INTRODUCTION
9. Multilingual literacies 1
10. 1. Literacy events and literacy practices: theory and practice in the New Literacy Studies 17
11. I. CHILDREN’S WORLDS OF LITERACY: HOME, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY
12. 2. Work or play? ‘Unofficial’ literacies in the lives of two East London communities 37
13. 3. Power relations and the social construction of ‘literacy’ and ‘illiteracy’: the experience of Bangladeshi women in Birmingham 55
14. 4. Learning to read and write at home: the experience of Chinese families in Britain 71
15. 5. Language, literacy and world view 91
16. 6. Language and literacy practices in Gujarati Muslim families 103
17. 7. Children writing in a multilingual nursery 127
18. II. TEXTS, IDENTITIES AND ADULT WORLDS
19. 8. Enterprising women 149
20. 9. Writing switching in British Creole 171
21. 10. Mediators and mediation in multilingual literacy events 189
22. 11. Texts, mediation and social relations in a bureaucratised world 209
23. III. CREATING SPACES FOR MULTILINGUAL LITERACIES IN LOCAL COMMUNITY CONTEXTS
24. 12. Languages and literacies for autonomy 233
25. 13. Gender, literacy and community publishing in a multilingual context 247
26. IV. RESEARCHING LANGUAGES AND LITERACIES IN THEIR SOCIAL CONTEXTS
27. 14. Taking account of history and culture in community-based research on multilingual literacy 275
28. 15. Photography in collaborative research on multilingual literacy practices: images and understandings of researcher and researched 299
29. 16. Constructing a critical, dialogic approach to research on multilingual literacy: participant diaries and diary interviews 319
30. AFTERWORD
31. Multilingual literacies, literacy practices, and the continua of biliteracy 353
32. Bibliography 369
33. Index 389