Rural Literacy Sponsorship Networks

Piloting Mixed-Methods Mapping for Small Communities
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-15323-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 256 g

This text provides an in-depth exploration of rural community literacy, examining the ways in which community-building, social networks, time, race, and politics interplay.

Mapping the dense literacy sponsorship network of a small rural town in the southeastern United States, Nichols offers a window into the challenges and successes of collective literacy sponsorship. Through an original mapping-focused approach, the book explores multiple social and environmental layers that construct literacy sponsorship writ large.
This approach provides a novel methodological entry to rural literacies and will be key reading for rural community literacy advocates, literacy scholars, graduate students, and researchers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nichols, Amy McCleese

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: An Ecological Approach to Rural Literacies  1. Why Worry About the Rural, and What is “The Rural” Anyway?  2. Interlude on Researcher Positionality  3. Sketching A Literacy Sponsorship Network: Visualization as Method and Rhetorical Practice  4. Functional Ecologies: Collective Collaboration in Abbyville’s Literacy Sponsorship Network  5. Functional Ecologies: Collective Maintenance of Abbyville’s Literacy Sponsorship Network  6. Racial Barriers to Literacy Sponsorship Roles in Abbyville  7. Not Always What, but How: Study Ethics, Methods, and Methodologies  8. Conclusion: Futures for Researching Small Literacy Sponsorship Networks  Appendix A - Interview Questions  Appendix B – Interview-Based Codebook

Über Autor(innen)

Amy McCleese Nichols is the Director of Writing Resources and Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Berea College.