This text provides an in-depth exploration of rural community literacy, examining the ways in which community-building, social networks, time, race, and politic

Rural societies around the world are changing in fundamental ways, both at their own initiative and in response to external forces. The Routledge International

Rural Literacies identifies the problems inherent in trying to understand rural literacy, addresses the lack of substantive research on literacy in rural areas,

In Literacy as Conversation, the authors tell stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighborhoods

Following on the groundbreaking contributions of Deborah Brandt’s Literacy in American Lives—a literacy ethnography exploring how ordinary Americans have be