Literacy as Conversation - Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities

A Hopeful Approach to the Problem of Literacy Among Communities in Need

About the author

Eli Goldblatt (Author)
Eli Goldblatt is Professor Emeritus of English at Temple University and former director of New City Writing, an institute focused on community-related literacy projects in North Philadelphia.

David A. Jolliffe (Author)
David Jolliffe is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Arkansas, where he was the initial occupant of the Brown Chair in English Literacy.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: David A. Goldblatt, Eli Goldblatt, David A. Joliffe, David Jolliffe, David A Jolliffe
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780822946243
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4624-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Composition, Literacy, and Cul; Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics