Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780791450710
Subjects: Adult education; Educational systems; Literacy; Remedial teaching; Research methods: general; Teaching of a specific subject; Remedial Adult Education; Illiteracy And Literacy Education; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Education; Research; Case studies; Literacy programs; United States
Description: "Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change argues that the meaning and value of literacy is a function of specific local institutions. At the core of the book is an examination of one institution, Western District Adult Basic Education. Grabill moves between the case of Western District and literacy theory from disciplines like rhetoric, composition, education, sociology, and professional and technical writing in order to develop a theory of institutions and institutional change. The book enables researchers and teachers to locate spaces where change is possible within institutional systems and then work in those spaces to change the meaning and value of literacy."--Jacket.