A critical discourse analysis of family literacy practices [[electronic resource] ] : power in and out of print / / Rebecca Rogers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449955603321
• Autore: Rogers Rebecca
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum, 2003
• ISBN: 1-135-63478-5; 1-282-32509-4; 9786612325090; 1-4106-0769-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2/24
• Soggetti: Sociolinguistics; Literacy; Discourse analysis; Communication in families; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction: Participants in the Study and Theoretical Orientations; 2 Methodology; 3 Personal and Institutional Histories; 4 Family Literacy as Apprenticeship; 5 ""I'm Her Mother, Not Them""; 6 Into the Meeting Room; 7 Through the Eyes of the Institution; 8 The Paradox of Literacy; Appendixes; References; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary book, Rebecca Rogers explores the complexity of family literacy practices through an in-depth case study of one family, the attendant issues of power and identity, and contemporary social debates about the connections between literacy and society. The study focuses on June Treader and her daughter Vicky, urban African Americans labeled as ""low income"" and ""low literate."" Using participant-observation, ethnographic interviewing, photography, document collection, and discourse analysis, Rogers describes and explains the complexities of identity, pow