Portraits of Everyday Literacy for Social Justice: Reframing the Debate for Families and Communities

by Susan Jones

Book Overview

Based on an ethnographic study involving three families who live on a Midlands council housing estate, this book presents portraits of everyday lives - and the literacy practices that are part of them - as a way to explore the complex relationship between literacy and social justice. Each portrait focuses on a different aspect of literacy in everyday life: drawing on perspectives offered by the long and diverse tradition of literacy studies, each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319759442
• ISBN13: 9783319759449
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"