ABSTRACT
This volume explores and evaluates community-based literacy programs, examining how they bridge gaps in literacy development, promote dialogue, and connect families, communities, and schools. Highlighting the diversity of existing literary initiatives across populations, this book brings together innovative and emerging scholarship on the relationship between P20 schools and community-based literacy programming. This volume not only identifies trends in research and practice, but it also addresses the challenges affecting these community-based programs and presents the best practices that emerge from them.
Collaborating with leading scholars to provide national and international perspectives, and offering a clear, birds-eye view of the state of community literacy praxis, chapters cover programming in a multitude of settings and for a wide range of learners, from early childhood to incarcerated youths and adults, and including immigrants, refugees, and indigenous communities. Topics include identity and empowerment, language and literacy development across the lifespan, rural and urban environments, and partnership programs. The breadth of community literacy programming gathered in a single volume represents a unique array of models and topics, and has relevance for researchers, scholars, graduate students, pre-service educators, and community educators in literacy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
Language and Literacy Development
chapter 4|12 pages
Nurturing Multiple Literacies
part II|71 pages
Unique Populations
chapter 6|16 pages
Fostering Young Children’s Literacy in Home and Community Settings
chapter 7|13 pages
Literacy Learning in “Unofficial” Spaces
chapter 9|14 pages
Incarcerated Languages and Literacies
part III|66 pages
Unique Settings and Contexts
chapter 13|13 pages
Beyond Visual Literacy
chapter 14|13 pages
Doing Pedagogic Work to Illuminate the World
part IV|61 pages
Identity Development and Empowerment
chapter 16|12 pages
Identity Matters in Service-Learning Literacies
chapter 19|12 pages
PluggedInVA
part V|86 pages
Partnership Programs