...dominant groups may control activities which are executed by subordinate groups' (ibid. p. 215). This hint that literacy practices are aspects not only of culture, but also of their inherent power structures (Street, 1993) speaks of new directions for ethnographic studies of...

...cultural anthropology. The New Literacy Studies support an ideological model of literacy which signals explicitly that literacy practices are aspects not only of culture but also of power structures (Street, 1995; Baynham, 1995). Viewed in this way, school-sanctioned literacy - or 'Literacy', as referred...

...Literacy Studies support an ideologi20/11/2006 10:00:31 220 221 cal model of literacy which signals explicitly that literacy practices are aspects not only of culture but also of power structures (Street, 1995; Baynham, 1995). Viewed in this way, schoolsanctioned literacy - or 'Literacy', as referred...