| Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast Contributor(s): Lachuk, Amy Johnson (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498511929 ISBN-13: 9781498511926 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $92.07 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Rural - Education | Student Life & Student Affairs |
| Dewey: 371.829 |
| LCCN: 2016039207 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (0.8 lbs) 136 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |