Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace

Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace, 9780805846225 (0805846220), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This book is about understanding the meanings of literacies at work.
Reading without a search for meanings is a contradiction in terms. So,
too, is doing workplace literacy education without focusing on how
people make sense of texts at work.

Yet often, that is exactly what workplace educators are asked to do.
We are hired to teach the use of workplace documents and charts with
a narrow focus on skills, rather than to educate for understanding and
inclusion in the meanings of workplace life. In Reading Work we try to
explore what might be missing from the familiar skills approach to literacy
and workplace education. We think there is a better way. And we
believe we are not alone.

For all these reasons, this book is also about bridging the divide between
theory and practice in the field of workplace education. It attempts
to strengthen the ties between recent social practice theories of
literacy and the everyday events and dilemmas of education in the workplace.
We argue that literacies at work can only be understood like
threads in a tapestry. To see what they are, what they do and what they
mean, we need to explore the patterns in the whole cloth, to discover the
big picture. Ethnographic research is the tool that lets us do this, and
stories are our principal means to share what we have learned.

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