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Adult Literacy and American Identity
The release of U.S. census data in 1910 sparked rhetoric declaring the nation had a literacy crisis and proclaiming illiterate citizens a threat to democratic life. While newspaper editors, industrialists, and officials in the federal government frequently placed the blame on newly arrived immigrants, a smaller but no less vocal group of rural educators and clubwomen highlighted the significant number of native-born illiterate adults in the Appalachian region. Author Samantha NeCamp looks at the educational response to these two distinct literacy narratives—the founding of the Moonlight Schools in eastern Kentucky, focused on native-born nonliterate adults, and the establishment of the Americanization movement, dedicated to the education of recent immigrants.
Drawing on personal correspondence, conference proceedings, textbooks, and speeches, NeCamp demonstrates how the Moonlight Schools and the Americanization movement competed for public attention, the interest of educators, and private and governmental funding, fueling a vibrant public debate about the definition of literacy. The very different pedagogical practices of the two movements—and how these practices were represented to the public—helped shape literacy education in the United States. Reading the Moonlight Schools and the Americanization movement in relation to one another, Adult Literacy and American Identity expands the history and theory of literacy and literacy education in the United States. This book will be of interest to scholars in literacy, Appalachian studies, and rhetoric and composition.
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Toward a Multilingual Composition Scholarship: From English Only to a Translingual Norm
Against the limitations English monolingualism imposes on composition scholarship, as evident in journal submission requirements, frequency of references to non-English medium writing, bibliographical resources, and our own past work, we argue for adopting a translingual approach to languages, disciplines, localities, and research traditions in our scholarship, and propose ways individuals, journals, conferences, and graduate programs might advance composition scholarship toward a translingual norm.
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The Hazel Green Herald and the \Idea of Appalachian\
This article examines a late nineteenth-and early twentiethcentury newspaper published in Appalachian eastern Kentucky for evidence of literacy practices in the locality as a way to counter the myth of Appalachian illiteracy that characterizes the \"idea of Appalachia.\" I demonstrate that a wide variety of literacy practices are documented within the newspaper but also that the newspaper itself both creates and invokes a literate populace.
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The Hazel Green Herald And The \Idea Of Appalachia\
This article examines a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century newspaper published in Appalachian eastern Kentucky for evidence of literacy practices in the locality as a way to counter the myth of Appalachian illiteracy that characterizes the \"idea of Appalachia.\" I demonstrate that a wide variety of literacy practices are documented within the newspaper but also that the newspaper itself both creates and invokes a literate populace. Adapted from the source document.
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