The stillbirth of local epistemologies

Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives

dc.contributor.author	Prem, Phyak
dc.coverage.spatial	South Asia	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2010-12-19T19:07:00Z
dc.date.available	2010-12-19T19:07:00Z
dc.date.created	2010-08
dc.date.issued	2010-12-19
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2374.DALN/2006
dc.description	This literacy narrative describes my challenges of transitioning from my first language, Limbu, to Nepali and then to English as a medium of education. I define literacy more broadly than learning to read and write but as also constituting gaining knowledge. I believe that literacy practice cannot be alienated from our socio-cultural reality and it keeps on changing when you move from one place to another. At the same time, I assume that transition from one literary practice to another creates the situation of ambivalence which becomes a beginning point for learning.	en_US
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.subject	Nepal	en_US
dc.subject	English education	en_US
dc.subject	ELT	en_US
dc.subject	literacy	en_US
dc.title	The stillbirth of local epistemologies	en_US
dc.creator.gender	Male	en_US
dc.creator.raceethnicity	Nepalese Limbu	en_US
dc.creator.class	middle class	en_US
dc.creator.yearofbirth	1980	en_US
dc.contributor.interviewer	Sharma, Shyam
dc.rights.consent	adult	en_US
dc.rights.release	adult	en_US
dc.coverage.period	1980-1989	en_US
dc.coverage.period	1990-1999	en_US
dc.coverage.period	2000-2009	en_US
dc.coverage.nationality	Nepalese	en_US