Aging Literacies (Angela Crow)
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 1-57273-643-7 Price:$17.95 Title: Aging Literacies Author(s): Angela Crow Publish Date: March 2006 Pages: 172 Affiliation: Georgia Southern University Format: Paper
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In the wake of articles that call for writing instruction to keep pace with the multimodal realities students experience (i.e., video games, WWW texts, multimedia presentations), this book takes up the complicated question of writing faculty development and the training necessary to address shifting definitions of literate acts. Specifically, the text brings the issue of aging to this conversation, addressing both our attitudes toward aging literacies, and the role that age plays in the acquisition of new literacy practices. The book also suggests the necessity of becoming more literate about how current research on aging might impact the field of rhetoric and composition studies. The text explores the intricacies involved with defining aging; the challenges of recognizing and negotiating agist stereotypes; the role gender, race, and class play in aging; and the ways we learn as we age. While the focus is on aging and faculty development, the aging concerns addressed in the text can help readers consider aging issues more generally in their own research designs. Contents: INTRODUCTION: THE SEDUCTION OF CHANGE. Overview of Chapters. Sustainable Change. WHAT ARE LITERATE ACTS: What’s a Literate Act?: Using E-Mail Filters. Learning Multiple Literate Acts. Structural Influences on Literate Acts. THE PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF STUDYING AGING. Calendar Age. Identity Formation”Shaping a Body. Cohort. Life Course Concerns. Erikson, and Jung’s Life Course Perspectives. Shaping Life Courses to Ease Mortality Concerns. Combining All the Factors. NOT OLD FARTS: ERASING STEREOTYPES. Youth-Centered Denial Strategies. Workplace Attitudes. Research That Suggests Solutions. Navigating Mortality. SHAPING RESEARCH/HYBRIDITY? Not Basic Writers: Learners of New Literacies. Current Literate Practices. GENDER AND AGING: CUMULATIVE (DIS)ADVANTAGES. Poverty. Health. Life Course Models Revisited. SENIOR-FRIENDLY TEXTS. Text Design. Framing Wysocki. Senior-Friendly Guidelines. LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS. CONCLUSION. Finding Metaphors for Pedagogy: A Rickety Bridge. Failed Conversations and Further Research. References. Author Index. Subject Index.