Portraits of Everyday Literacy for Social Justice: Reframing the Debate for Families and Communities

ISBN-13: 9783319759449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 230 str.

Susan Jones

Opis

Based on an ethnographic study involving three families who live on a Midlands council housing estate, this book presents portraits of everyday lives - and the literacy practices that are part of them - as a way to explore the complex relationship between literacy and social justice.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Everyday Literacy in the Frame

Chapter 2. Finding Perspective: Researching Everyday Literacy Practices

Chapter 3. Literacy and ''The 'Forgotten Estate'': What They Haven't got?

Chapter 4. The Local Library: Literacy and Capital

Chapter 5. Shared Practice in Place: Literacy and the Construction of Community

Chapter 6. A  Portrait of Family Literacy

Chapter 7. Material Literacies: Writing Home

Chapter 8. Reframing Literacy for Social Justice

O autorze

Susan Jones is an Assistant Professor at the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK.