My life with literacy : the continuing education of a historian : the intersections of the personal, the political, the academic, and place / by Harvey J. Graff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graff, Harvey J., author.

Series:

Practices & possibilities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graff, Harvey J.

College teachers--United States--Biography.

College teachers.

Historians--United States--Biography.

Historians.

Literacy--United States--History.

Literacy.

Interdisciplinary approach in education--United States--History.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Physical Description:

viii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado : The WAC Clearinghouse ; Denver, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2024]

Summary:

"Calling My Life With Literacy a "new intersectionality," Harvey J. Graff explores both overarching and underlying patterns that connected his development and lived experience from childhood to and through his retirement from the academy. He considers the inextricable interconnections of personal experiences and relationships; the political, broadly defined to include life-shaping contexts and historical events, influences, values, commitments, and experiences; the social, intellectual, and political dimensions of academics and scholarship-a life of learning and using literacy and literacies; and the circumstances of living in six major cities and studying and then teaching in five universities. Graff's pioneering scholarship in the history of literacy and literacy studies provides both the frame and the foundation for his work in the history of children and youth; the history of cities; higher education past, present, and future; and interdisciplinarity itself"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Graff, Harvey J. My life with literacy

ISBN:

9781646427048

1646427041

OCLC:

1478944908