Author : Brice Nordquist
Release : 2017-04-28
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 905/5 ( reviews)
GET EBOOK
Book Synopsis Literacy and Mobility by : Brice Nordquist
Download or read book Literacy and Mobility written by Brice Nordquist. This book was released on 2017-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations, this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a "failing" U.S. public school through their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs. Analytical and methodological tools from new literacy and mobility studies are employed to investigate relations among patterns of movement and literacy practices across educational institutions, neighborhoods, cultures, and national borders. By following research participants’ trajectories in and across scenes of literacy in school, college, home, online, in transit, and elsewhere, the work illustrates how students help constitute and connect one scene of literacy with others in their daily lives; how their mobile literacies produce, maintain, and disrupt social relations and identities with respect to race, gender, class, language, and nationality; and how they draw upon multiple literacies and linguistic resources to accommodate, resist, and transform dominant discourses.