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The Great divide model
Literacy (particularly alphabetic) has inherent, universal cognitive and social effects
Seen as superior to orality
Argued by Goody & Watt (1963)
First half of debate
Situated literacies
New literacy studies represent second half of the debate
There is no single literacy with predictable effects only culturally specific literacies
Street (1993) + Collins (1995)
Literacy and power
Writing is never neutral. It is always embedded in relations of domination, exclusion, and identity formation
The colonial dimension
Writing has historically been an instrument of colonial power: fixing oral traditions, freezing property relations, creating legal subjects