A provocative exploration of the way that cultural arrogance and assumptions affect women's lives and their literacy development. Author Daphne Key tells the stories of women from different life circumstances to show the importance of literacy learning in all areas of life and the ways that educators, often unconsciously, shut out students from different cultural or economic backgrounds.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for Students. Learn more |
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
What can an examination of literacy narratives at home, in school, and at church teach educators and researchers about the way Americans value speaking, reading, and writing? Do educators, perhaps unintentionally, believe that their manner of speaking or education is superior to that of their students? How does this belief affect educators' relationships with their students and their students' attitudes toward reading and writing? "Literacy Shutdown: Stories of Six American Women" tells the stories of women from different life circumstances to show the importance of literacy learning in all areas of life and the ways that educators, often unconsciously, shut out students from different cultural or economic backgrounds.
Contending that in the United States, manner of speech and educational background reflect cultural status, author Daphne Key attempts to prove that what is often described as illiteracy is in fact a shutting down response to those in positions of power. Interviewing six American women at length, Key discovered that all of them had experienced either a "reluctance to read, to write, and to speak publicly" or a "need to shut down in the presence of others deemed more powerful, more correct, or more educated."
Whenever possible, Key uses the women's own words to tell their stories. What emerges is a provocative and often moving exploration of the way that cultural arrogance and assumptions affect women's lives and their literacy development.
About the Author
Daphne Key is a college instructor. This book was developed from her doctoral thesis at Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama, USA.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
