At Play in the Space: The concept of 'the social practice approach' in the Scottish adult literacies field

This paper focuses on Scotland’s policy response to the International Adult Literacy Survey (1994-1998) and the ‘grand experiment’ (Merrifield 2005) to implement a social practices perspective of literacies.This radical perspective, derived from the New Literacy Studies (NLS), has profound implicati...

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Main Author: Aileen Ackland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2013-06-01
Series:Literacy and Numeracy Studies
Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/3330