I conducted a survey in order to determine whether or not the cultural values shared by parents from a poor mountain town in West Virginia discourage high school stude[...]

To become literate when we move from one part of the country to another with significant cultural differences, our first task is to learn the new culture so we can mor[...]

This article revisits the debate between cultural and critical literacy through ethnography challenging popular academic views in education and literacy. Set in a pres[...]

Linda Scott DeRosier’s autobiographical accounts of literacy attainment in Creeker: A Woman’s Journey and Songs of Life and Grace reveal that entrance into a secondary[...]

This paper considers how community literacy programs factor into broader economies of literacy development. The author analyzes two Appalachian community literacy proj[...]

This article explores the literacy lives of students enrolled in English Composition courses at two open-admission universities in Central Appalachia and the complex r[...]

Two literary scholars struggle with the intersections between regional theory and public policy as they attempt to devise a writing workshop manual for a county in sou[...]