LEADER 05050nam 2200697 450 001 9910789382703321 005 20230126211919.0 010 $a0-8229-7960-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000095324 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001185104 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11676075 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001185104 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11197062 035 $a(PQKB)11542349 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2041598 035 $a(OCoLC)875633881 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33260 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2041598 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10853074 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL586811 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000095324 100 $a20140408h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aProducing good citizens $eliteracy training in anxious times /$fAmy J. Wan 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (231 pages) 225 1 $aPittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8229-6289-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIn the Name of Citizenship -- Literacy Training, Americanization, and the Cultivation of the Productive Worker-Citizen -- Class Work : Labor Education and Literacy Hope -- English and Useful Citizenship in a Culture of Aspiration -- Teaching Literacy and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century. 330 2 $a"Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. The stipulation of literacy has long been one of these criteria. In Producing Good Citizens, Amy J. Wan examines the historic roots of this phenomenon, looking specifically to the period just before World War I, up until the Great Depression. During this time, the United States witnessed a similar anxiety over the influx of immigrants, economic uncertainty, and global political tensions. Early on, educators bore the brunt of literacy training, while also being charged with producing the right kind of citizens by imparting civic responsibility and a moral code for the workplace and society. Literacy quickly became the credential to gain legal, economic, and cultural status. In her study, Wan defines three distinct pedagogical spaces for literacy training during the 1910's and 1920's: Americanization and citizenship programs sponsored by the federal government, union-sponsored programs, and first year university writing programs. Wan also demonstrates how each literacy program had its own motivation: the federal government desired productive citizens, unions needed educated members to fight for labor reform, and university educators looked to aid social mobility. Citing numerous literacy theorists, Wan analyzes the correlation of reading and writing skills to larger currents within American society. She shows how early literacy training coincided with the demand for laborers during the rise of mass manufacturing, while also providing an avenue to economic opportunity for immigrants. This fostered a rhetorical link between citizenship, productivity, and patriotism. Wan supplements her analysis with an examination of citizen training books, labor newspapers, factory manuals, policy documents, public deliberations on citizenship and literacy, and other materials from the period to reveal the goal and rationale behind each program. Wan relates the enduring bond of literacy and citizenship to current times, by demonstrating the use of literacy to mitigate economic inequality, and its lasting value to a productivity-based society. Today, as in the past, educators continue to serve as an integral part of the literacy training and citizen-making process"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aPittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. 606 $aLiteracy$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCitizenship$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAcculturation$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmericanization$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1865-1918 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1918-1932 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aLiteracy$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aCitizenship$xHistory 615 0$aImmigrants$xHistory 615 0$aAcculturation$xHistory 615 0$aAmericanization$xHistory 676 $a302.2/244 686 $aLAN010000$aLAN005000$2bisacsh 700 $aWan$b Amy J.$01574909 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789382703321 996 $aProducing good citizens$93851496 997 $aUNINA