College Composition and Communication Feb 2009

Heritage Literacy: Adoption, Adaptation, and Alienation of Multimodal Literacy Tools

Suzanne Kesler Rumsey

Abstract

This article presents the concept of heritage literacy, a decision-making process by which people adopt, adapt, or alienate themselves from tools and literacies passed on between generations of people. In an auto-ethnographic study, four generations of a single family and Amish participants from the surrounding community were interviewed to explore the concept.

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College Composition and Communication
Published
2009-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20096971
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qualitative research multimodality literacy studies
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