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.
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