Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices. Detailed ethnographic studies of a wide variety of specific situations, all involving real texts and lived practices, are balanced with general claims about the nature of literacy. Contributors address a coherent set of issues: * the visual and material aspects of literacy * concepts of time and space in...
Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contri...
The renowned analyst and author here provides deep insight into the process required to bring feminize wisdom to consciousness in a patriarchal culture as struggle in which many women are more fully engaged today that ever before. Presenting the personal journeys of three wise women as maps, she points the way to the state of inner wholeness and balance she calls "conscious femininity."
The renowned analyst and author here provides deep insight into the process required to bring feminize wisdom to consciousness in a patriarchal cultur...
This title aims to uncover the constructed nature of public understandings of literacy by examining detailed examples of how literacy is represented in a range of public contexts. It looks at the ways in which knowledge about literacy is created and distributed and examines the different semiotic resources used in such representations.
This title aims to uncover the constructed nature of public understandings of literacy by examining detailed examples of how literacy is represented i...
The storytelling tradition has long been an important piece of Kentucky history and culture. Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a special place in the imaginations of inventive storytellers and captive listeners. In Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies Kentucky storyteller Mary Hamilton narrates a range of stories with the voice and creativity only a master storyteller can evoke.
Hamilton has perfected the art of entrancing an audience no matter the subject of her tales. Kentucky Folktales includes stories about Daniel...
The storytelling tradition has long been an important piece of Kentucky history and culture. Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a ...
"When two people have health problems and they are married, who takes care of the caregiver?"
Learn what it takes to survive, and how to cope, when the unthinkable happens in Mary "Mitzi" E. Hamilton's heartbreaking true story, "Two Frogs in a Puddle."
Mary enjoyed a quiet retirement on the coast of Florida with her loving husband, Lowell. They had worked hard all their lives, saving as much as they could until they were happily living off their tiny nest egg.
Settling into a peaceful routine, they enjoyed fishing, biking, and spending time with their two sons and grandsons....
"When two people have health problems and they are married, who takes care of the caregiver?"
Learn what it takes to survive, and how to cope, w...
