Donna Dunbar-Odom, "Defying the Odds: Class and the Pursuit of Higher Literacy"
State Un-ty of N.w Y.rk Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0791469727 | 150 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Examines why some working-class students pursue higher literacy while others don't.
From the Back Cover
"For me, literacy is ... like trying to open a locked door with the wrong key ... I don't always see the meaning at first and usually I have to have someone ... let me in with their key. I tend to think that being in college is enough, but it still isn't going to guarantee higher literacy for me. It is something I am trying to grasp, but I am going about it slowly, simply because I am not so sure of how importantit is to me." -- Rachel
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