Rural Literacy Sponsorship Networks: Piloting Mixed-Methods Mapping for Small Communities

By Amy McCleese Nichols

This text provides an in-depth exploration of rural community literacy, examining the ways in which community-building, social networks, time, race, and politics interplay.

Mapping the dense literacy sponsorship network of a small rural town in the southeastern United States, Nichols offers a window into the challenges and successes of collective literacy sponsorship. Through an original mapping-focused approach, the book explores multiple social and environmental layers that construct literacy sponsorship writ large.

This approach provides a novel methodological entry to rural literacies and will be key reading for rural community literacy advocates, literacy scholars, graduate students, and researchers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032153237
• ISBN13: 9781032153230
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"