Books by Brian V. Street

This text examines literacy, politics and social change, the ethnography of literacy and literacy in education, and explores a new critical framework.

Why do some school students struggle at numeracy? Here, the authors tackle this question in an original way, by focusing on numeracy as social practice. They report their findings using ethnographic-style approaches including formal and informal interviews.

The contributors present their in-depth studies of everyday uses and meanings of literacy and of the literacy programmes that have been developed to enhance them.