What is it about?
This paper provides insights into how literacy may develop to challenge relationships of inequality and oppression. It uses two case studies of a family literacy project and football literacy classes to show the knowledge, experience and skills that adults have can be built on.
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Why is it important?
It is important because it provides a different way of thinking about literacy through emphasising what adults can do rather than what they can't.
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This page is a summary of: Critical and social literacy practices from the Scottish adult literacy experience: resisting deficit approaches to learning, Literacy, October 2011, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4369.2011.00599.x.
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