Adult literacy and American identity : the Moonlight schools & Americanization programs / Samantha NeCamp.
2014
LC5147.A67 .N43 2014eb
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Adult literacy and American identity : the Moonlight schools & Americanization programs / Samantha NeCamp.
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9780809333592 (electronic book)
9780809333585
9780809333585
Published
Carbondale, Illinois : Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vii, 185 pages)
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LC5147.A67 .N43 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
374/.0124
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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 School.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Literacy, Crisis, and Educational Responses
3. Developing Pedagogies for Illiterate Adults
4. The Politics of Americanization
5. Professionalizing Adult Education
6. Implications and Conclusions.
2. Literacy, Crisis, and Educational Responses
3. Developing Pedagogies for Illiterate Adults
4. The Politics of Americanization
5. Professionalizing Adult Education
6. Implications and Conclusions.