ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aims to find Street’s ideological model of literacy aligns with the everyday literacy practices of her family and community and, ‘offers a more culturally sensitive view of literacy practices varying from one culture to another’. She explores her own literacy practices embedded in her faith, culture, and identity and part of her everyday routine and rituals. The work of Brian V. Street offers a framework in which to question Western narratives of literacy and has shaped her thinking in relation to literacy pedagogy and a different lens to view community literacy practices. B. S. Heath says a literacy event is an event ‘in which a written text is involved in a social interaction’. According to E. Gregory et al. faith literacies are very special ‘communi-ties of practice’, most cultures have special literacy events, but often we don’t understand the epistemology of such events.
