dc.contributor.author |
Johnson, Lineo R
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dc.date.accessioned |
2017-07-06T08:11:32Z |
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dc.date.available |
2017-07-06T08:11:32Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Johnson, Lineo R (2016) Cultural and social uses of orality and functional literacy: A narrative approach. Reading & Writing; Vol 7, No 1 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2308-1422 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/rw.v7i1.119 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22786 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Lesotho’s educational system and development are largely influenced by missionaries and
colonisers who taught the three ‘Rs’ (reading, writing and numeracy skills) to the Basotho.
Most of those enlightened Basotho were to carry on the duties of either educating others or as
missionary workers. Some became clerks, interpreters, police officers, nurses and Sunday
school teachers. This article is an account of a functionally literate Mosotho male adult learner
who was herding livestock and taught himself reading and writing skills. In his narrative,
Hlalefang (not his real name) compares literacy to money and a watch or a clock. He further
expresses how people like him have managed to muster some basic and restructure the
cognitive and oral history and archival memories, through intuitiveness. The story is based on
the work of Paulo Freire where culture influences the discourse of literacy. A qualitative
narrative story-telling approach was used to relate Hlalefang’s lived-experiences as he
navigated his ways and challenges using orality acquired through various life encounters.
This inspirational cultural narrative demonstrates that culture and social uses are imperatives
in functional literacy. The article challenges those in adult education, literacy, development
practitioners and policy-makers to consider some aspects of culture and to be innovative in their approaches to multi-literacies. |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
AOSIS |
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dc.subject |
social uses |
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dc.subject |
cultural |
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dc.subject |
orality |
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dc.subject |
functional literacy |
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dc.subject |
narrative approach |
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dc.title |
Cultural and social uses of orality and functional literacy: A narrative approach |
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dc.type |
Article |
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dc.description.department |
ABET and Youth Development |
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