Literacy as Conversation: Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities

by Eli Goldblatt and David Jolliffe

Book Overview

In Literacy as Conversation, the authors tell stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighborhoods of Philadelphia and rural and semi-rural towns of Arkansas. They define literacy not as a basic skill but as a rich, broadly interactive human behavior: the ability to engage in a conversation carried on, framed by, or enriched through written symbols. Eli Goldblatt takes us to after-school...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822946246
• ISBN13: 9780822946243
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"