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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

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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)

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Literacy and power

  • Writing is never neutral. It is always embedded in relations of domination, exclusion, and identity formation

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The colonial dimension

  •  Writing has historically been an instrument of colonial power: fixing oral traditions, freezing property relations, creating legal subjects