Literacy as placed resource in the context of a rural community member’s everyday lives: The case of Bweyale in Uganda
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Date
2016
Authors
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Publisher
Routledge
Abstract
Literacy
is
a
placed
resource
that
is
used
differently
in
the
different
places
of
everyday
life
in
rural
communities.
Bweyale
is
a
multilingual
rural
community
in
Uganda.
In
this
chapter,
I
report
a
study
of
rural
community
literacy
use
in
Bweyale
to
show
how
literacy
used
varies
from
one
place
to
another.
Literacy
pervades
every
aspect
of
rural
community
life
and
rural
people
use
literacy
in
many
rich
and
creative
ways.
Contexts
for
literacy
use
include
rural
community
livelihoods,
education,
religion,
bureaucracy,
household
and
personal
life.
The
ethnographic
study
reported
in
this
chapter
was
informed
by
the
theory
of
literacy
as
social
practice.
The
findings
show
that
literacy
use
is
influenced
by
activities
which
are
embedded
in
the
different
spaces
in
which
people
are
involved
as
they
live
their
everyday
lives.
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Keywords
Literacy, Rural community, Uganda
Citation
Openjuru, G. (2016). Literacy as placed resource in the context of a rural community’s everyday life: The case of Bweyale in Uganda. In Languages and literacies as mobile and placed resources (pp. 82-97). Routledge.