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The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the Lives of Adult Learners

The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the Lives of Adult Learners

Rosenberg, Lauren

Paperback

Series: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

General ReferenceGeneral EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0814110819
ISBN13: 9780814110812
Publisher: Natl Council Of Teachers Of En
Published: Aug 12 2015
Pages: 185
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.40 Depth: 5.50
Language: English

The literate tend to take their literacy and all it affords them for granted; they are equally likely to assume that nonliterate people do not know, think, or understand in the ways they do, that the silence of nonliteracy is both intrinsic and deserved.

But as Lauren Rosenberg illustrates, marginalized adult learners are quite capable of theorizing about their position in society, questioning dominant ideas, disrupting them, and challenging traditional literacy narratives in American culture. In The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the Lives of Adult Learners, Rosenberg takes up the imperative established by community literacy researchers to engage with people in communities outside of formal schooling in an effort to understand adult learners' motivations and desires to become more literate when they choose reading and writing for their own purposes.

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