Portraits of Everyday Literacy for Social Justice Reframing the Deba
Based on an ethnographic study involving three families who live on a Midlands council housing estate, this book presents portraits of everyday lives - and the literacy practices that are part of them - as a way to explore the complex relationship between
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Susan Jones
Portraits of Everyday Literacy for Social Justice “Utterly compelling, this book enlists us to contemplation, action, and tough realizations surrounding the intertwining of economics and literacy. Susan Jones eloquently reframes long-standing debates in ways sure to engage those who believe literacy to be a fundamental human right.” —Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University, USA “This book, beautifully written and crafted, is an urgent call to researchers working at the cutting edge of literacy studies to listen to the lived experience of people who experience austerity. Literacy research that values the everyday is needed more than ever in order to address key issues of power, social justice and inequality. The book provides a clear account of everyday literacies of families living on a housing estate in the UK. This book exposes the mechanisms by which so many people have been blamed for policies not of their making, and creates a space where engaged literacy research takes centre stage to articulate and challenge these injustices. A riveting and powerfully articulated ‘must read’ for all literacy researchers that explores new paradigms for new times to move the field of literacy studies forward.” —Kate Pahl, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK “This is a timely and hugely engaging book; it is a rich ethnographic study with a central focus on the ways in which literacy and inequality are bound together … It is through the sharp lens of literacy that the pages unpick the critical and interconnected challenges it presents in relation to social justice. We enter a community that that has been marginalised in so many ways and where austerity is more than a political discourse—it is biting hard. Importantly, the critical discussion opens up to how we can work towards frameworks that offer resistance and challenge inequality in contemporary Britain and beyond.” —Vicky Duckworth, Edge Hill University, UK
Susan Jones
Portraits of Everyday Literacy for Social Justice Reframing the Debate for Families and Communities
Susan Jones School of Education University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-75944-9 ISBN 978-3-319-75945-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75945-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018935296 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulati
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