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| Critical Issues: Circles of Kinship, Friendship, Position, and Power: Examining the Community in Community-Based Literacy Research | ||
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| Elizabeth
B. Moje University of Michigan |
Literacy
research conducted in communities of practice outside classrooms and
schools has proliferated in the last decade with little attention
given to what it means to talk about literacy in "the community."
This article explores issues surrounding community-based literacy
research and suggests that, although well intentioned, literacy researchers
risk overdetermining, essentializing, and romanticizing what it means
to engage in community-based literacy if we do not deWne and question what is meant by community. The need to define and complicate community as a construct is important, because communities are becoming more complex, and sometimes less communal, with the diversity and rapid change of new times and fast capitalism (Hall, 1995; Lankshear, 1997; Luke & Luke, 1999, in press). This piece examines various definitions of community that have framed community-based literacy studies to date and argues for concerted efforts to define and complicate perspectives on community in future research. |
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| JLR v. 32 no. 1 2000 pp. 77–112 |
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