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"Good English": Literacy And Institutional Systems At A Community Literacy Organization, Charise G. Alexander
"Good English": Literacy And Institutional Systems At A Community Literacy Organization, Charise G. Alexander
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This thesis explores the impact of institutions and the systems and communities of which they are a part on literacy instruction, practices, and rhetoric at a community literacy organization in Lincoln, Nebraska. A majority of students served by this organization are adult English Language Learners, many of whom receive instruction from volunteer tutors. In this unique context, a number of factors affect literacy learning, particularly the perpetuation of conservative, hegemonic discourses about literacy by the organizations which fund literacy education programming at this site.
The power dynamics at work in these granting organizations and in larger systems that control and …