Can we describe our work in a blurb? here is one version I sent Susie but I am not sure how we could create a joint blurb for all of us
These images come from two studies of literacy practices in homes in Sheffield and Rotherham.
We are grateful to Booktrust and Yorkshire Forward for funding these projects. In these images, literacy is found to be embedded in material things. If you look at these images, where is the literacy? Is it in the craft activities, in the toys, in the digital objects?
The study sees literacy as an everyday social practice. Rather than think of literacy as something that happens at school, it sees literacy as being strongly embedded in the home and in home objects. Many of these images have been taken by children as young as five to show the researcher what they like to play with at home. Some of the families are multilingual and they use different languages in the home. Some of the literacy materials are in scripts such as Arabic, Urdu or Malaysian. The exhibition reminds us of Richard Hoggart’s classic study in Yorkshire on The Uses of Literacy (1957). As you look at the images, you could think about the differences and similarities between literacy in the home 50 years ago, and then the uses of literacy today.
The images have been drawn from two ethnographic studies of home literacy practices, (2009-2010) conducted by Kate Pahl, Margaret Lewis and Louise Ritchie, funded by Booktrust and Yorkshire Forward.
We are grateful to Booktrust and Yorkshire Forward for funding these projects. In these images, literacy is found to be embedded in material things. If you look at these images, where is the literacy? Is it in the craft activities, in the toys, in the digital objects?
The study sees literacy as an everyday social practice. Rather than think of literacy as something that happens at school, it sees literacy as being strongly embedded in the home and in home objects. Many of these images have been taken by children as young as five to show the researcher what they like to play with at home. Some of the families are multilingual and they use different languages in the home. Some of the literacy materials are in scripts such as Arabic, Urdu or Malaysian. The exhibition reminds us of Richard Hoggart’s classic study in Yorkshire on The Uses of Literacy (1957). As you look at the images, you could think about the differences and similarities between literacy in the home 50 years ago, and then the uses of literacy today.
The images have been drawn from two ethnographic studies of home literacy practices, (2009-2010) conducted by Kate Pahl, Margaret Lewis and Louise Ritchie, funded by Booktrust and Yorkshire Forward.
