Part 1 Changing the subject boundaries: good science or good art? or both?, Shirley Brice Heath; evolving shared discourse with teachers to promote literacies for learning in South Africa, Alan and Viv Kenyon; mathematics, and its learning, as narrative - a literacy for the 21st century, Leone Burton. Part 2 Literacy practices inside schools, outside schools and in higher education: scientific literacy - a functional construct, Edgar Jenkins; family literacy programmes and home literacy practices, David Barton; enlarging the ways of taking for literary texts, Henrietta Dombey; frames of knowledge, Terezinha Nunes; children's formal and informal school numeracy practices, Dave Baker; how can you discuss alone? - academic literacy in a South African context, Lyn Hewlett; academic literacies, Brian V. Street. Part 3 The role of texts in literacies for learning: an agenda for research on text materials in primary science for second language learners in developing countries, Alan Peacock; focusing on the frames - using comic books to challenge dominant literacies in South Africa, Peter Esterhuysen; book learning - literacy and information, Margaret Meek. Part 4 Questioning dominant canons and practices: dominant and subversive literacy practices - the case for literature, Carol Fox; scientific literacy - whose science? whose literacy?, John Clay; calculating people - origins of numeracy in India and the West, George Gherverrhese Joseph.