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Great Lake Great Books Adapting To Change, Lynette Marten Suckow
Great Lake Great Books Adapting To Change, Lynette Marten Suckow
Michigan Reading Journal
Things change quickly in a global pandemic. Books can remind us that the world is always changing and we have the resilience to adapt to those changes.
Carrying The Stories Of Las Mariposas: Literacy As Collective And Transformative, Deborah Vriend Van Duinen
Carrying The Stories Of Las Mariposas: Literacy As Collective And Transformative, Deborah Vriend Van Duinen
Michigan Reading Journal
Literacy is often understood as the acquisition of individual skills and knowledge. In this essay, I explore different approaches to understanding literacy that focus on social meaning-making and action. Drawing on historical examples of literacy learning and my recent experiences in a community-wide reading program focused on Julia Alvarez’s (1994) In the Time of the Butterflies, I use the concept of “carrying stories” to reflect on how literacy learning can be collective and transformative for self and society.