Literacy in American Lives by Brandt by Kevin Belcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2 Other pathways of conversation en-us 2018-04-05 21:08:38 UTC 2024-06-01 13:01:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Alarmclock.png KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249057170 2018-04-05 21:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249057170 Education KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249057660
  • B.A. from Rutgers University (1974) 
  • Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington (1983)
    • ]]>     2018-04-05 21:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249057660     Production KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249058611 "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)]]> 2018-04-05 21:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249058611 Learning is registered as: KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249059690
  • 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"
    ]]>     2018-04-05 21:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249059690     Literacy Development KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249060971 "the accumulating project of literacy learning across a lifetime, the interrelated effects an potentials of learning over time" (7)]]> 2018-04-05 21:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249060971 Literacy Opportunity KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249061233 "people's relationships to the social and economic structures that condition chances for learning and development" (7)]]> 2018-04-05 21:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249061233 The Shape of Literacy KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249061518 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)]]> 2018-04-05 21:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249061518 Parameters of the Study (9-24) KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249062442 Was this choice of presentation effective? 
    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)
    ]]>     2018-04-05 21:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249062442     Sponsors of Literacy KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249064029 "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
    ]]>     2018-04-05 21:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249064029     Residential Segregation KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249089859 "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)]]> 2018-04-06 01:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249089859 Narrative Form vs. Block Quotations KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249090160 2018-04-06 01:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249090160 Destruction & Replacement KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249090365 "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)]]> 2018-04-06 01:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249090365 Literacy Learning KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249090578 "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)]]> 2018-04-06 01:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249090578 Fighting and Working with Societal Transformations KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249090862 Chapter 2:Ames vs. Lowery ]]> 2018-04-06 01:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249090862 Writing and Speaking (Ch.2) KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249090989 "'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)]]> 2018-04-06 01:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249090989 "the thing to do" (78) KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249091246 Coping with transformations]]> 2018-04-06 01:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249091246 "Efficiency for the reader" (14) KevinBelcher https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249091531 Discussion]]> 2018-04-06 01:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/KevinBelcher/Brandt2/wish/249091531