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OverviewThis text provides an in-depth exploration of rural community literacy, examining the ways in which community-building, social networks, time, race, and politics interplay. Mapping the dense literacy sponsorship network of a small rural town in the southeastern United States, Nichols offers a window into the challenges and successes of collective literacy sponsorship. Through an original mapping-focused approach, the book explores multiple social and environmental layers that construct literacy sponsorship writ large. This approach provides a novel methodological entry to rural literacies and will be key reading for rural community literacy advocates, literacy scholars, graduate students, and researchers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy McCleese Nichols (Berea College, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.310kg ISBN: 9781032153230ISBN 10: 1032153237 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 20 February 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Ecological Approach to Rural Literacies 1. Why Worry About the Rural, and What is “The Rural” Anyway? 2. Interlude on Researcher Positionality 3. Sketching A Literacy Sponsorship Network: Visualization as Method and Rhetorical Practice 4. Functional Ecologies: Collective Collaboration in Abbyville’s Literacy Sponsorship Network 5. Functional Ecologies: Collective Maintenance of Abbyville’s Literacy Sponsorship Network 6. Racial Barriers to Literacy Sponsorship Roles in Abbyville 7. Not Always What, but How: Study Ethics, Methods, and Methodologies 8. Conclusion: Futures for Researching Small Literacy Sponsorship Networks Appendix A - Interview Questions Appendix B – Interview-Based CodebookReviewsAuthor InformationAmy McCleese Nichols is the Director of Writing Resources and Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Berea College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |