Literacy Across the Community

ISBN 10: 0367468611 / ISBN 13: 9780367468613

Published by Routledge, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Literacy Across the Community
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367468611
• ISBN 13: 9780367468613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume explores and evaluates community-based literacy programs, examining how they bridge gaps in literacy development, promote dialogue, and connect families, communities, and schools. Highlighting the diversity of existing literary initiatives across populations, this book brings together innovative and emerging scholarship on the relationship between P20 schools and community-based literacy programming. This volume not only identifies trends in research and practice, but it also addresses the challenges affecting these community-based programs and presents the best practices that emerge from them.

Collaborating with leading scholars to provide national and international perspectives, and offering a clear, birds-eye view of the state of community literacy praxis, chapters cover programming in a multitude of settings and for a wide range of learners, from early childhood to incarcerated youths and adults, and including immigrants, refugees, and indigenous communities. Topics include identity and empowerment, language and literacy development across the lifespan, rural and urban environments, and partnership programs. The breadth of community literacy programming gathered in a single volume represents a unique array of models and topics, and has relevance for researchers, scholars, graduate students, pre-service educators, and community educators in literacy.

About the Author

Laurie A. Henry is Professor of Literacy and Dean of the Seidel School of Education at Salisbury University in Maryland, USA.

Norman A. Stahl is Professor Emeritus of Literacy Education at Northern Illinois University, USA, and a Council of Learning Assistance and Development of Education Associations (CLADEA) National Fellow.