"Get up and get on": literacy, identity work and stories in the lives of families residing at a homeless shelter

In this qualitative research study, I examine the literacy practices of five families who resided in a homeless shelter with attention to the complexity of literacy as it is taken up for fulfilling cultural and social goals within families, neighborhoods, and communities. Literacy is complicated thr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobs, Mary Margaret
Other Authors: Whitmore, Kathryn F., 1959-
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2013
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2529
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4658&context=etd