Brian Street is Professor of Language in Education at King's College, London, and Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Literacy in Theory and Practice, Cross-cultural Approaches to Literacy, and Social Literacies.

• List of figures, List of contributors, Introduction, PART I Literacy and development: ethnographic perspectives on schooling and adult education, PART II Literacy and development: local literacies and development agendas, Afterword: problematising literacy and development, Index

'Brian Street is to be commended for providing this collection of ethnographic studies, they are all informed by recent research and possess a unity of perspective.' - Dennis Malone, The Linguist'The book raises useful questions of research and application for those studying literacy in relation to development ... As a book that was short-listed for the best publication in 2002 by the British Association for Applied Linguistics, this collection has earned a well-deserved place in the burgeoning literature on critical literacy.' - A. Suresh Canagarajah, The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism