1st Edition

Literacy and Mobility Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College

By Brice Nordquist Copyright 2017
184 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations, this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a "failing" U.S. public school through their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs. Analytical and methodological tools from new literacy and mobility studies are employed to investigate relations among patterns of movement and... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Literacy in Place and Motion

Chapter 2: Methodology for Mobile Literacy

Chapter 3: School Systems of (Im)mobility

Chapter 4: Mobile Collaborations

Chapter 5: Pedagogy for the Present

Appendix A: Overview of Student Participants

Appendix B: Nadif’s Literary Analysis (Argument) for AP English

Appendix C: Scan of Sections of "From the Hood to the Halls: Urban Fiction Meets Hip Hop Literacies Survival Guide"

Appendix D: Katherine’s Autobiography for Dual Enrollment English

Appendix E: Transit Authority of the River City, Route 29

Appendix F: Nadif’s Proposal Essay for ENG 102, College Composition

Appendix G: Regular English Education Sketches

Appendix H: Nadif’s Research Essay for ENG 102, College Composition

Appendix I: Part Two of James’s Review of Nadif’s "An Appeal to the People Essay"

Index

Biography

Brice Nordquist is Assistant Professor, Writing and Rhetoric, Syracuse University, USA.