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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Educational strategies & policy

• Full title: Literacy and the Practice of Writing in the 19th Century
• Subtitle: 'A Strange Blossoming of Spirit'
• Author: Ursula Howard
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781862015647
• ISBN: 1862015643
• ID: 05123473
• Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
• Weight: 652 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. August 2012

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