Rural Literacy Sponsorship Networks

ISBN-13: 9781032160566 / Twarda / 2024 / 168 str.

USA) Nichols Amy McCleese (Berea College

Opis

This text provides an in-depth exploration of rural community literacy, examining the ways in which community-building, social networks, time, race, and politics interplay.

Spis treści

Introduction: An Ecological Approach to Rural Literacies  1. Why Worry About the Rural, and What is “The Rural” Anyway?  2. Interlude on Researcher Positionality  3. Sketching A Literacy Sponsorship Network: Visualization as Method and Rhetorical Practice  4. Functional Ecologies: Collective Collaboration in Abbyville’s Literacy Sponsorship Network  5. Functional Ecologies: Collective Maintenance of Abbyville’s Literacy Sponsorship Network  6. Racial Barriers to Literacy Sponsorship Roles in Abbyville  7. Not Always What, but How: Study Ethics, Methods, and Methodologies  8. Conclusion: Futures for Researching Small Literacy Sponsorship Networks  Appendix A - Interview Questions  Appendix B – Interview-Based Codebook

O autorze

Amy McCleese Nichols is the Director of Writing Resources and Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Berea College.