Protean Literacy: Extending the Discourse on Empowerment

by Concha Delgado-Gaitan

Overview

Originally published in 1996. During the author's decade of critical ethnography in Carpinteria, California, she has illuminated the intricate relationships between Latino families as together they build a sociopolitical community to bridge family and school alliances. How they extend their learning from the social networks to the family arena and to the personal, and in reverse, represents their protean responses to the diversity and adversity in their lives. This life-story captures the collective and individual texts of the Latino children, their parents and educators used to empower themselves to transform discontinuity in an age where continuity is increasingly foreign.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815373766
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/29/2019
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Literacy
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. Community Landscape 2. Participatory Voices 3. Building on Family Strengths 4. Shapeshifting: A Self of Many Possibilities 5. Protean Pedagogy 6. Dimensions of Change

Editorial Reviews

Delgado-Gaitan (sociocultural studies in education, U. of California-Davis) draws on her decade of ethnographic work among the Latino immigrant community in Carpinteria, California, to explain how literacy is interwoven through all spheres of people's lives. She shows how they apply what they learn from the social network to the family arena and their personal lives, and in reverse represent their own responses to the diversity and adversity in their lives. She concludes that the close integration provides an optimum learning environment in the home, community, and school. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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