In her third post on literacy and development, Alex Grey examines some of the issues associated with using literacy rates as a measurement to inform development policy, and shows how problematic approaches to monitoring literacy can lead to problems on the ground....
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About: Alex Grey
Alex Grey is legal researcher and advocacy trainer at a Chinese not-for-profit in Beijing, continuing there after a stint with AusAID's Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development program. Back home (Australia), she lectured in law and was a practising commercial solicitor. Alex is currently studying Chinese (Mandarin) and Linguistics.
Recent Posts by Alex Grey
Literacy in Development: China’s ethnic minorities (part 2)
In an exciting cross-post with The China Beat, Alex continues analysing of the role literacy and development, this time in the Middle Kingdom. She looks at the minority communities who populate most of China’s developing regions, their bilingual schooling (or lack of it) and the relationship between their languages,...
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Literacy in development: economics and social sciences converge, uneasily (part 1)
Literacy is not a set of skills independently learned regardless of social and cultural context, nor is it simply synonymous with schooling. In part 1 of a three-part series, Alex Grey argues that unless ethnographic understandings inform literacy campaigns and other development projects, they are likely to be less successful...
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The price of freedom is not eternal vigilante-ism
By Alex Grey | Posted in: China & Development |
Internet microblogging in China has been touted by some as the way forward for civil society, but this kind of participation does not include development of civil society institutions. The Red Cross Society of China has just been at the centre of a big scandal taking place largely in the...
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Hardly one bad Apple spoiling the bunch
By Alex Grey | Posted in: China & Development |
Apple again hit the news in late February over poor working conditions in its supply chain. At least 137 workers in an assembly plant that supplies Apple with touchscreens, in Suzhou, China, have nerve damage from exposure to n-hexane. But from Alex's perspective, working in a labour law legal aid...
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Recent Comments by Alex Grey
- October 10, 2012 on Why development workers should read children’s books
- June 27, 2012 on Sustainable development and poverty eradication through the prism of a Green Economy
- May 16, 2012 on Peer coaching: it’s happening, but we need your help
- May 8, 2012 on Peer coaching: it’s happening, but we need your help
- March 20, 2012 on Hardly one bad Apple spoiling the bunch
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