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Bartlett, Lesley – International Journal of Educational Development, 2008
This article considers contemporary policy claims about "what literacy is" and "what literacy does." First, the article reviews in-depth the ways in which development discourses define literacy, and the claims made in development discourses about the "consequences" of literacy for economic and political development. I…
Descriptors: Literacy, Students, Development, Ethnography

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