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B.A. from Rutgers University (1974)

Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington (1983)

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"seeing literacy as a productive resource in economic terms makes it analogous in some ways to natural resources or raw materials. What land was to the agricultural economy or iron to the manufacturing economy, people's skills are to the information economy" (6)

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An effort to improve their skills

An attempt to meet new conditions

A by-product of performing tasks

An available collective good

"a cultural equivalent of water or air"

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"the accumulating project of literacy learning across a lifetime, the interrelated effects an potentials of learning over time" (7)

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"people's relationships to the social and economic structures that condition chances for learning and development" (7)

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Literacy is shaped by "what can be traded on it. This perspective attends to the competitions that surround literacy, the struggles to harness it for profit... to manage or measure it, and the ways these incessant struggles set the terms for individual encounters with literacy" (7)

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Possible topics of discussion:

"Life-story research" (10)

Critique of "indirect evidence" (10-11)

Deliberate Limitations (12-13)

Focus on reading/writing

Participants not asked for writing or personal matter

Edited transcriptions

Setting: Wisconsin (14)

Reciprocity and giving back to community (17)

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"any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, and model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold, literacy - and gain advantage by it" (19)

repetition of Sponsor

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"Residential segregation was perceived 'as a pre requisite for material as well as social success.'" Day states, "'I never did have to hunt for jobs... Somebody from my area always said, 'Call me' or 'We've got a job for you" (32)

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"This is a condition faced by millions of literacy learners of all ages at the beginning of the twenty-first century, learners whose ways of life and labor are undergoing permanent destruction and replacement" (43)

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"Literacy learning entails more than attaining the reading and writing abilities... [one must] make the transformations and amalgamations that have become embedded , across time, in the history of those standards" (46)

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Fighting and Working with Societal Transformations

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Fighting and Working with Societal Transformations

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Chapter 2:Ames vs. Lowery

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"'I knew there was trouble to get into for speaking, so I said, well, I'm not going to speak it. I'll just write it down'" (63)

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Coping with transformations

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Discussion