Overview
- Links arguments surrounding literacy and social justice to highlight how education can improve social mobility
- Builds on the voices and stories of participants to highlight the individual behind the data
- Suggests how literacy can be taught to approached to widen accessibility and opportunities for learners
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Arguing for the importance of looking carefully at everyday literacy in order to understand the intertwining factors that threaten justice, this book positions literary research and education as central to the struggle for wider social change. It will be of interest and value to researchers, educators and students of literacy for social justice.
Reviews
“This book, beautifully written and crafted, is an urgent call to researchers working at the cutting edge of literacy studies to listen to the lived experience of people who experience austerity. Literacy research that values the everyday is needed more than ever in order to address key issues of power, social justice and inequality. The book provides a clear account of everyday literacies of families living on a housing estate in the UK. This book exposes the mechanisms by which so many people have been blamed for policies not of their making, and creates a space where engaged literacy research takes centre stage to articulate and challenge these injustices. A riveting and powerfully articulated ‘must read’ for all literacy researchers that explores new paradigms for new times to move the field of literacy studies forward.” (Kate Pahl, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
“This is a timely and hugely engaging book; it is a rich ethnographic study with a central focus on the ways in which literacy and inequality are bound together… It is through the sharp lens of literacy, that the pages unpick the critical and Interconnected challenges it presents in relation to social justice. We enter a community that that has been marginalized in so many ways and where austerity is more than a political discourse - it is biting hard. Importantly, the critical discussion opens up to how we can work towards frameworks that offer resistance and challenge inequality in contemporary Britain and beyond.” (Vicky Duckworth, Edge Hill University, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Portraits of Everyday Literacy for Social Justice
Book Subtitle: Reframing the Debate for Families and Communities
Authors: Susan Jones
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75945-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75944-9Published: 22 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09360-0Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75945-6Published: 07 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 230
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literacy, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Learning & Instruction