Community Literacy Journal Oct 2007 Open Access

There Again, Common Sense: Rethinking Literacy Through Ethnography

Jacqueline Preston Utah Valley University

Abstract

This article revisits the debate between cultural and critical literacy through ethnography challenging popular academic views in education and literacy. Set in a preschool classroom at the inception of the “No Child Left Behind” initiative, this essay focuses on teaching assistant Marylou Anderson. Her experiences growing up in Appalachia inform a teaching philosophy that differs significantly from her colleagues. Her story invites us to reconsider how “the culture of power” functions as a formidable gatekeeper.

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Community Literacy Journal
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2007-10-01
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10.25148/clj.2.1.009505
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