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Ideologies Of Literacy, "Academic Literacies," And Composition Studies., Bruce Horner
Ideologies Of Literacy, "Academic Literacies," And Composition Studies., Bruce Horner
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In my contribution to this symposium, I take up the call of this journal in its mission statement for “new interactions between Literacy and Composition Studies.” From the framework of competing ideologies of literacy, I explore points of intersection as well as divergence between strands of what’s known as “composition studies” and what has come to be identified as the “academic literacies” approach to academic literacy. My focus on “academic literacies” rather than the broader area of literacy studies signals at least three of my biases: first, I wish to counter the tendency to allow the cultural norm for academic …
In The Wor(L)D But Not Of It : Literacy Practices Of An Amish Community In Southeast Ohio., Tabetha Adkins
In The Wor(L)D But Not Of It : Literacy Practices Of An Amish Community In Southeast Ohio., Tabetha Adkins
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Following in the tradition of scholars who treat literacy in context such as Deborah Brandt, Shirley Brice Heath, and David Barton and Mary Hamilton, I conducted my dissertation research not in an academic classroom but in the valleys of Hanley, a (pseudonym for a) town in southern Ohio, where I visited Amish homes, farms, and businesses. Using Brandt's model in Literacy in American Lives , I interviewed 25 Amish men, women, and children to study the uses of literacy in school, church, work, and daily life. I also attended community events such as an auction and a wedding to observe …