Research on varying literacies

[Alícia Fuentes-Calle]

Hi Leila,
You might be interested in this project led in South Africa:
http://www.praesa.org.za/nalibali-national-reading-for-enjoyment/#.U1F_wKh_v9x
They started these successful community-based reading clubs in Cape Town
some years ago. Carole Bloch ( carole at praesa.org.za ) can probably
contribute some valuable insights to your research. She is the current
director of PRAESA after Neville Alexander (a major Southafrican linguist
and promoter of the *multilingual habitus* (as he liked to call it) passed
away in 2012.
Hope you find this useful,
Best,
Alicia



On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Leila Monaghan <leila.monaghan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear friends:
>
> One of my current projects is working on a #ReadSameReadDifferent campaign
> designed to support books featuring children of color but also to encourage
> reading across cultural lines--the resegregation of America has led to
> abysmal statistics for the number of diverse children's books each year.
> Even when libraries stock multicultural books, they are not being checked
> out.  In order to combat this we are pushing people read pairs or sets of
> books on common themes.
>
> I am writing to get your input on the most recent ethnographically sound
> research on community literacy practices that we could highlight when
> putting together lesson plans based on both the common core and paired sets
> of books.  This whole field needs a solid dose of linguistic anthropology.
> I was thinking along the lines of more recent versions of Shirley Brice
> Heath's work comparing What and Why use among 3 communities.
>
> Hope this finds you all well,
>
> Leila
>
> ps: If you are interested in joining our group, just friend me on Facebook
> and drop me a note, I'd be happy to add you.
>
>
>
> --
> Leila Monaghan, PhD
> Department of Anthropology
> Southern Illinois University Carbondale
>