Full Description
Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast provides detailed descriptions of contemporary African American experiences with literacy and education in the rural South. In doing so, this book extends current understandings of sociocultural perspectives on literacy by illustrating how literacy practice is morally valenced, embodied, and narrative in quality. Johnson Lachuk argues that meaningful and ethical literacy instruction engages with perspectives that are embedded within a social and cultural community—that is, since literacy is linked to greater social mobility through institutional access for many persons, it is educators' ethical responsibility to ensure that learners have the literacy knowledge required to do so. Recommended for scholars of literacy, education, and sociology.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Back Story
Chapter 1: From the Rural South to the Front Street: A Narrative Backdrop For Literacy and Education Within Pinesville
Chapter 2: The Moral Responsibility of Literate Practice
Chapter 3: Literacy Practices as Material and Embodied
Chapter 4: Literacy Practice as Narrative Experience
Chapter 5: Sacred Stories on Literacy and Education
Chapter 6: A Communion of Advocacy
Chapter 7: Toward a More Person-Centered Literacy Scholarship
Appendix A: Life History in Practice
Appendix B: Life History Interview Protocol
References
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