Literacy and Mobility

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Literacy and Mobility

Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College

Literacy Social groups, communities and identities Social and cultural anthropology Educational systems and structures

Author: Brice Nordquist

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Collection: Expanding Literacies in Education

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 28th April 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 13 Mb

ISBN: 9781317279907


Research Focus

Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations, this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a "failing" U.S. public school through their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs.

Methodology

Analytical and methodological tools from new literacy and mobility studies are employed to investigate relations among patterns of movement and literacy practices across educational institutions, neighborhoods, cultures, and national borders.

Trajectories and Practices

By following research participants’ trajectories in and across scenes of literacy in school, college, home, online, in transit, and elsewhere, the work illustrates how students help constitute and connect one scene of literacy with others in their daily lives; how their mobile literacies produce, maintain, and disrupt social relations and identities with respect to race, gender, class, language, and nationality; and how they draw upon multiple literacies and linguistic resources to accommodate, resist, and transform dominant discourses.

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