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Literacy as Conversation: Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities

Literacy as Conversation: Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities

Goldblatt, Eli
Jolliffe, David a.

Paperback

Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture

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ISBN10: 0822966980
ISBN13: 9780822966982
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: May 31 2022
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.25 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
In Literacy as Conversation, the authors tell stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighborhoods of Philadelphia and rural and semi-rural towns of Arkansas. They define literacy not as a basic skill but as a rich, broadly interactive human behavior: the ability to engage in a conversation carried on, framed by, or enriched through written symbols. Eli Goldblatt takes us to after-school literacy programs, community arts centers, and urban farms in the city of Philadelphia, while David Jolliffe explores learning in a Latinx youth theater troupe, a performance based on the words of men on death row, and long-term cooperation with a rural health care provider in Arkansas. As different as urban and rural settings can be--and as beset as they both are with the challenges of historical racism and economic discrimination--the authors see much to encourage both geographical communities to fight for positive change.

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