This article suggests that the methodology of community-based action research provides concrete strategies for fostering effective community problem solving. To argue [...]

Prompted by Cushman’s and Grabill’s call to “ask and answer the difficult questions” about service learning (Reflections 2009), this article addresses the difficult qu[...]

This paper applies the lens of recent literature on neoinstitutionalism and institutional entrepreneurship to understand the stages of growth in a community Literacy C[...]

This study uses fieldwork to investigate the sponsorship of legal literacy within a court mediation program. This examination of institutional involvement in literacy [...]

This project examined health literacy efforts among adult basic education providers in Central Texas. A survey was conducted with all adult literacy providers in Centr[...]

This essay revises Paula Mathieu’s call for relationship-based tactics of engagement over institution-based strategies. Because engaged scholars operate within institu[...]

Using Jack Goody and Ian Watt’s theory of literacy as a normalizing agent, I show how the presence of the English language and “English Only” values and policies have [...]