Publisher's Synopsis
COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 19.1 (Fall 2024) The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work outside mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is the realm where attention is paid not just to content or knowledge but to the symbolic means by which it is represented and used. Thus, literacy makes reference not just to letters and to text but to other multimodal and technological representations as well. We publish work contributing to the field's emerging methodologies and research agendas.
CONTENTS: Editors' Introduction by Veronica House and Rebecca Lorimer Leonard INTERVIEWS: Editorial Changes and Challenges in a Growing Field: A Conversation About Community Literacy Journal, 2016-2024 by Veronica House and Paul Feigenbaum ARTICLES: Lawmakers as Community Partners: Writing Public Policy in the Composition Class by Brooklyn Terrill, Audrey Nance, and Rachael Shah Accounting for "Alternative" Genres in Community-Engaged Work by Maria Novotny "Be Helpful and Assume You Know Nothing" Wisdom from Community Leaders on University Engagement by Nancy Goldring, Arkia Wade, David Fakunle, Zosha Stuckey, and Carrie Grant Practicing Emergent Strategy in Pursuit of Epistemic Justice: Developing and Promoting Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices Christina Santana, Sinda Nichols, Carmine Perrotti, Roopika Risam, Joseph Krupczynski, Cindy Vincent, John Reiff, Aldo Garcia-Guevara, Elaine Ward, and Cynthia Lynch BOOK AND NEW MEDIA REVIEWS: From the Book and New Media Review Editor's Desk by Jessica Shumake, Editor Living English, Moving Literacies: Women's Stories of Learning between the US and Nepal by Katie Silvester, Review by Menuka Gurung
