What is Brian Street?
[[Image:Brian_Street.jpg|thumb|right|Brian Street in 2013]] '''Brian Vincent Street''' (24 October 1943 – 21 June 2017) was an British professor of language education at [[King's College London]] and visiting professor at the Graduate School of Education in [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/education/people/academic/streetb.aspx | title=Professor Brian Street |publisher=kcl.ac.uk | access-date=25 January 2013}}</ref> During his career, he mainly worked on [[literacy]] in both theoretical and applied perspectives. He was perhaps best known for his book ''[[Literacy in Theory and Practice]]'' (1984). Street died on 21 June 2017 in [[Hove]], [[England]], aged 73.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/brian-street-19432017|title=Brian Street (1943–2017)|publisher=University of Oxford Anthropology|date=27 June 2017|access-date=28 June 2017|archive-date=15 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915064842/http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/brian-street-19432017|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Street, Brian}} [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Academics of the University of London]] [[Category:Writers from Sussex]] {{bio-stub}}