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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Literacy Practices - Power in and Out of Print (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,383
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Literacy Practices - Power in and Out of Print (Paperback): Rebecca Rogers

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Literacy Practices - Power in and Out of Print (Paperback)

Rebecca Rogers

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In this groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary book, Rebecca Rogers explores the complexity of family literacy practices through an in-depth case study of one family, the attendant issues of power and identity, and contemporary social debates about the connections between literacy and society. The study focuses on June Treader and her daughter Vicky, urban African Americans labeled as "low income" and "low literate." Using participant-observation, ethnographic interviewing, photography, document collection, and discourse analysis, Rogers describes and explains the complexities of identity, power, and discursive practices that June and Vicky engage with in their daily life as they proficiently, critically, and strategically negotiate language and literacy in their home and community. She explores why, despite their proficiencies, neither June or Vicky sees themselves as literate, and how this and other contradictions prevent them from transforming their literate capital into social profit. This study contributes in multiple ways to extending both theoretically and empirically existing research on literacy, identity, and power:
* "Critical discourse analysis." The analytic technique of critical discourse analysis is brought into the area of family literacy. The detailed explanation, interpretation, and demonstration of critical discourse analysis will be extremely helpful for novices learning to use this technique. This is a timely book, for there are few ethnographic studies exploring the usefulness and limits of critical discourse analysis.
* "Combines critical discourse analysis and ethnography." This new synthesis, which is thoroughly illustrated, offers an explanatory framework for the stronghold of institutional discursive power. Using critical discourse analysis as a methodological tool in order to build critical language awareness in classrooms and schools, educators working toward a critical social democracy may be better armed to recognize sources of inequity.
* "Researcher reflexivity." Unlike most critical discourse analyses, throughout the book the researcher and analyst is clearly visible and complicated into the role of power and language. This practice allows clearer analysis of the ethical, moral, and theoretical implications in conducting ethnographic research concerned with issues of power.
* "A critical perspective on family literacy." Many discussions of family literacy do not acknowledge the raced, classed, and gendered nature of interacting with texts that constitutes a family's literacy practices. This book makes clear how the power relationships that are acquired as children and adults interact with literacy in the many domains of a family's literacy lives.
"A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Literacy Practices: Power In and Out of Print" will interest researchers and practitioners in the fields of qualitative methodology, discourse analysis, critical discourse studies, literacy education, and adult literacy, and is highly relevant as a text for courses in these areas.

General

Imprint: Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2003
First published: 2003
Authors: Rebecca Rogers
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 978-0-8058-4784-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Literacy
Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General
LSN: 0-8058-4784-7
Barcode: 9780805847840

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