Brian Street
Biography
Brian V. Street is Professor of Language in Education in the School of Education at King's College, London University and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He undertook anthropological fieldwork in Iran during the 1970s, and has since worked in the USA, Britain, and S. Africa.
He has written and lectured extensively on literacy practices from both a theoretical and an applied perspective. In addition to six books, he has written over 60 scholarly articles and given more than seventy papers and presentations at international conferences. He is best known for Literacy in Theory and Practice (C.U.P. 1985) and an edited volume Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy, (CUP, 1993). A collection of his articles, Social Literacies, was recently published by Longman's (1995). He has also been active in applying theory to practice, and has been involved in lecture tours, workshops, training programs and research on this in a number of countries - Australia, USA, S. Africa, Canada, etc. and is a member of Technical Support teams on current aid projects in Egypt, Nepal and S. Africa. He has jointly organised a number of conferences, and subsequent publications with respect to both literacy in the UK (cf. Literacy Research in the UK, 1988 edited with J. McCaffery, RAPAL) and development issues (cf. Literacy in Development: People, Language, Power, (edited, EDDEV and Commonwealth Institute, 1991) Sustaining Local Literacies, EDDEV, University of Reading, 1993; Literacy and Power?, EDDEV/ UNESCO Harare, Zimbabwe, 1995).
SLTP Presentations
Literacy & Development: Challenges to Dominant Paradigms (S3)
Ethnographic Research on Literacy Practices in Development (S9)
INTERNATIONAL LITERACY
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