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Informationen zum Autor Amy Johnson Lachuk is associate professor of literacy education at Hunter College. Klappentext Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast providesdetailed 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. Zusammenfassung This book uses life history narratives of African Americans to address how individuals experience literacy in response to their self! others! and their temporal context within one community in the rural southeastern United States. Lachuk argues how literacy is understood as a moral obligation! a means for mobility! and a way of creating a communion of advocacy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 About the Author ...
