Literacy in American Lives

Literacy in American Lives
Author: Deborah Brandt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521003063

This book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century.

Defying the Odds

Defying the Odds
Author: Donna Dunbar-Odom
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0791480712

"For me, literacy is ... like trying to open a locked door with the wrong key ... I don't always see the meaning at first and usually I have to have someone ... let me in with their key. I tend to think that being in college is enough, but it still isn't going to guarantee higher literacy for me. It is something I am trying to grasp, but I am going about it slowly, simply because I am not so sure of how important it is to me." — Rachel According to key literacy research, working-class students are far less likely to pursue higher literacy than their middle-class counterparts, yet there are countless examples of those who have defied the odds. In this thoughtful look at why some determinedly pursue higher literacy against all expectations and predictions, Donna Dunbar-Odom explores the complex relationships people have with literacy, paying particular attention to the relationship between literacy and class. She shares the personal and often poignant literacy narratives of writers, academics, and her own students to reveal a great deal about what motivates desire for higher literacy, as well as what gets in the way. Bringing together these reflections with current literacy, composition, and class theories, Dunbar-Odom provides a better understanding of how to tap that desire in writing classrooms. Ultimately, the author argues that teachers need to focus less attention on how students should read and more on why they might want to.

The Pursuit of Literacy

The Pursuit of Literacy
Author: John Lowe
Publisher: Unesco
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1999
Genre: Literacy programmes
ISBN: 9789231033452

This book describes and discusses twelve programmes that either were awarded the International Literacy Prize created by UNESCO in 1967 or received an honorable mention. The selection was based on three main criteria: intrinsic value; the fact that each one of them illustrates a particular type of programme and regional representation.

Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Author: DON. VU
Publisher: Scholastic Professional
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781338769364

Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness is the first professional title dedicated to addressing a school's reading culture with a focus on the needs of immigrant and refugee students and families--including learning their target language, English. Dr. Vu presents the research-informed six conditions of culture--Commitment, Collection, Clock, Conversation, Connection, and Celebration--that create a school environment where immigrant and refugee students can thrive. Additionally, Dr.Vu provides practical strategies that most effectively support students who are new to this country.

In Pursuit of Literacy

In Pursuit of Literacy
Author: George Maynard Freemole
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1995
Genre: Literacy
ISBN:

My teaching experiences raised questions about the nature of literacy, especially about its relationship with education and schooling. Common sense, straightforward definitions of literacy failed to address those questions adequately, and that inadequacy led to the study which culminates in this thesis. In Pursuit of Literacy focuses on literacy in order to explore answers to those questions. It does so first by establishing a problematized understanding of literacy, then by examining research into the implications of such an understanding, and finally by analyzing the historical link between literacy and schooling in the United States with that understanding as a basis. This thesis arrives at its initial problematized understanding by considering historical and contemporary definitions of literacy and standards for measuring it, revealing that context plays a central role in these definitions and standards. This work then posits a literacy uncertainty principle, analogous to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in physics, emphasizing the definer's role and purpose as necessary elements in any understanding of literacy itself. A view of literacy as a contextualized human activity rather than an abstract and narrowly defined concept emerges from this problematization. This study then examines some implications of this view. Three metaphors commonly identified with literacy provide a basis for analyzing these implications. Finally, literacy as schooling, a fourth metaphor is considered in an historical context, tracing possible sources of confusion between the demands of schooling and those of literacy. The conclusions drawn here help clarify the relationship between schools and literacy.

Reading’s Non-Negotiables

Reading’s Non-Negotiables
Author: Rachael Gabriel
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475801173

A small set of important practices should be considered non-negotiable elements of daily reading instruction. The research base of these non-negotiables is described along with practical examples of their application. The non-negotiables do not require additional materials, time or funding, but can be integrated into any program in order to ensure every student has access to effective literacy instruction. This book can be used as a guide for program design and evaluation, as well as a source of ideas and (re)assurances for those currently engaged in the ongoing pursuit of effective literacy instruction for every reader, every day.

Linguistic Justice

Linguistic Justice
Author: April Baker-Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1351376705

Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts. By highlighting the counterstories of Black students, Baker-Bell demonstrates how traditional approaches to language education do not account for the emotional harm, internalized linguistic racism, or consequences these approaches have on Black students' sense of self and identity. This book presents Anti-Black Linguistic Racism as a framework that explicitly names and richly captures the linguistic violence, persecution, dehumanization, and marginalization Black Language-speakers endure when using their language in schools and in everyday life. To move toward Black linguistic liberation, Baker-Bell introduces a new way forward through Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that intentionally and unapologetically centers the linguistic, cultural, racial, intellectual, and self-confidence needs of Black students. This volume captures what Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy looks like in classrooms while simultaneously illustrating how theory, research, and practice can operate in tandem in pursuit of linguistic and racial justice. A crucial resource for educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students in language and literacy education, writing studies, sociology of education, sociolinguistics, and critical pedagogy, this book features a range of multimodal examples and practices through instructional maps, charts, artwork, and stories that reflect the urgent need for antiracist language pedagogies in our current social and political climate.

Literacy in American Lives

Literacy in American Lives
Author: Deborah Brandt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2001-05-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521783156

Literacy in American Lives traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of ordinary Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book demonstrates what sharply rising standards for literacy have meant to successive generations of Americans and how--as students, workers, parents, and citizens--they have responded to rapid changes in the meaning and methods of literacy learning in their society. Drawing on more than 80 life histories of Americans from all walks of life, the book addresses critical questions facing public education at the start of the twenty-first century.

The Pursuit

The Pursuit
Author: T. C. Stallings
Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1424551900

T. C. Stalling, who starred as Tony Jordan in the hit faith-based film War Room, shares an amazing and inspirational story of courageously pursuing his God-given purpose. Then in 14 days he will equip and encourage you to do the same! The only thing that can stop the plan of God for your life from succeeding is you. This is not because you have the “power” to stop God. It’s because He does not force His divine will on anyone, and instead, graciously allows us to choose what we do with it. Stopping the plan of God for your life from succeeding only happens one way—by not choosing to accept and pursue it. Why would anyone not want God’s plan for their lives? Maybe doubt, fear, uncertainty? Some people do not even know that God has a specific purpose and plan for their time on earth. The Pursuit contains 14 days of 14 Scriptures with 14 inspirational devotions, combined with real-life examples of how to apply each pursuit principle. Knowing that the one and only all-powerful God of the universe has designed an unstoppable plan for your life should cause you to chase after this plan with everything you have! You are God’s creation. You have your own God-given purpose that is waiting to be pursued. Will you pursue it? Get ready. 14 days could change everything.