Community Literacy Journal 8.2 (Spring 2014)

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 8.2 (Spring, 2014) | 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: 'Reframing the Argument: Critical Service-Learning and Community-Centered Food Literacy' by Veronica House | 'Assembling for Agency: Prisoners and College Students in a Life Writing Workshop' by David Coogan | '’Socializing Democracy’: The Community Literacy Pedagogy of Jane Addams' by Rachael Wendler | 'Investigating Adult Literacy Programs through Community Engagement Research: A Case Study' by Jaclyn M. Wells | 'Reading Under Cover of the Veil: Oral and Textual Literacies in Antebellum America' by Sandra Elaine Jones | ''To Learn About Science': Real Life Scientific Literacy Across Multicultural Communities' by Adriana Briseño-Garzón, Victoria Purcell-Gates, and Kristen H. Perry | BOOK AND NEW MEDIA REVIEWS: 'From the Book Review Editor’s Desk' by Jim Bowman | 'Keyword Essay: ’Community Management’' by Jennifer deWinter | 'Unsustainable: Re-imaging Community Literacy, Public Writing, Service-Learning and the University' by Jessica Restaino and Laurie JC Cella, eds., reviewed by Jody A. Briones | 'Cultural Practices of Literacy: Case Studies of Language, Literacy, Social Practice, and Power' by Vicoria Purcell-Gates, ed., reviewed by Kelly A. Concannon Mannise | 'Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community' by David Barton and Mary Hamilton, reviewed by Charlotte Brammer | 'Literacy in the Digital Age,' 2nd edition by Richard W. Burniske, reviewed by Lilian Mina