COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 11.2 (Spring 2017) The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of 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 defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to 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 that contributes to the field's emerging methodologies and research agendas.
CONTENTS: ARTICLES: Brokering Literacies: Child Language Brokering in Mexican Immigrant Families by Steven Alvarez "My Little English" a Case Study of Decolonial Perspectives on Discourse in an After-School Program for Refugee Youth by Michael T. MacDonald Looking Outward: Archival Research as Community Engagement by Whitney Douglas Who Researches Functional Literacy? By Donita Shaw, Kristen H. Perry, Lyudmyla Ivanyuk, Sarah Tham Navigating Difficulty in Classroom-Community Outreach Projects by Lauren Rosenberg REVIEWS: From the Book & New Media Review Editor's Desk by Jessica Shumake and Saul Hernandez Reframing the Subject: Postwar Instructional Film and Class-Conscious Literacies by Kelly Ritter Reviewed by Christopher M. Brown The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber Reviewed by Sandra D. Shattuck Composition in the Age of Austerity by Nancy Welch and Tony Scott Reviewed by Rachel Buck Grassroots Literacies: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet in Turkey by Serkan Grkemli Reviewed by Madelyn Pawlowski The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the Lives of Adult Learners by Lauren Rosenberg Reviewed by Sally Benson Freedom Writing: African American Civil Rights Literacy Activism, 1955-1967 by Rhea Estelle Lathan Reviewed by Eric A. House