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The Journal of Development Studies Volume 44, 2008 - Issue 6: Literacies, Identities and Social Change: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Development
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‘Making Things Happen’: Literacy and Agency in Housing Struggles in South Africa

Catherine Kell University of Waikato, New Zealand, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New ZealandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 892-912 | Published online: 03 Oct 2008

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Daris Hadianto, Vismaia S. Damaianti, Yeti Mulyati & Andoyo Sastromiharjo. (2022) Effectiveness of Literacy Teaching Design Integrating Local Culture Discourse and Activities to Enhance Reading Skills. Cogent Education 9:1.
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Catherine Kell. (2015) “Making people happen”: materiality and movement in meaning-making trajectories. Social Semiotics 25:4, pages 423-445.
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Rosalind Latiner Raby. (2009) Comparative and International Education: A Bibliography (2008). Comparative Education Review 53:S1, pages S1-S125.
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Kaushik Basu & Travis Lee. (2008) A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application. Social Choice and Welfare 32:2, pages 181-196.
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