Literacy as moral obligation among African Americans in the rural Southeast / Amy Johnson Lachuk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lachuk, Amy Johnson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education--Southern States.

African Americans.

African Americans--Education.

Literacy.

Southern States.

Literacy--Moral and ethical aspects--Southern States.

Physical Description:

xx, 115 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

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. Amy 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, if is educators' ethical responsibility to ensure that learners have the literacy knowledge required to do so Recommended for scholars of literacy, education, and sociology. Book jacket.

Contents:

From the rural south to the front street: a narrative backdrop for literacy and education within Pinesville

The moral responsibility of literate practice

Literacy practices as material and embodied

Literacy practice as narrative experience

Sacred stories on literacy and education

A communion of advocacy

Toward a more person-centered literacy scholarship

Appendix A: life history in practice

Appendix B: life history interview protocol

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lachuk, Amy Johnson, author. Literacy as moral obligation among African Americans in the rural Southeast

ISBN:

9781498511926

1498511929

OCLC:

957134478