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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"community literacy"”.
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All Writers Welcome: An Exploratory Study of the Potential Value of Academic Writing Center and Adult Community-Based Literacy Center Partnerships
… have been widely accepted as beneficial for literacy development, especially given the ubiquitous nature of writing. However, many off-campus communities lack writing support as visible, organized, and well-documented as that available to those on-campus through writing centers. Further, …
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Writing to act: developing activist writing curricula for LGBTQQIA community centers
… and activist writing on queer pedagogy and community literacy and explores how this scholarship realizes some of the goals of queer activism. After a discussion of the author's positionality and chosen terminology, the thesis uses close textual readings and these theoretical syntheses to …
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What are they learning?: Negotiations of language and identity within a third space after school program
… tool for understanding the dynamic between literacy learning and collaborations in an after school program. I make the case for an inclusion of socio-political discussions among sociocultural discussions of literacy in after school programs for an interdisciplinary approach to third space …
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Self, Other, and Jump Rope Community: The Triumphs of African American Women
Using Critical Race Theory, Critical Literacy, Black Feminist Thought as a theoretical framework and Oral History as research methodology, the lives of four young African American women are explored as they leave their culturally insular surroundings, Jump Rope Communities, to seek access to the …
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Rearticulating religious rhetoric: Literate activity and semiotic remediation in a progressive Christian church
… writing practices of clergy and the vernacular community literacy practices of their membership, practices that are both richly multimodal and intertextual. The professional composing of clergy is semiotically complex across both the church’s physical and digital spaces, setting what Jennifer …
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Rewriting the aging body: literacy, technology, and history
… narratives about who possesses technological literacy—and why—obscure the life experiences of older adults like Millie. In this dissertation, I recover such stories in order to challenge the assumption that older adults are inherently unwilling or inept participants by identifying ways in …
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Literacy and Labor: Archives, Networks, and Histories in Working-Class Communities
<p>Literacy and Labor: Archives, Networks, and Histories in Working-Class Communities explores the significance of The Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers (FWWCP), a network of writing groups that existed between 1976-2007 and self-published thousands of texts focused on …