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In this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the first thirty years of his life-in the classroom but mostly outside it. Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography traces Goldblatt's search for home and his growing recognition that only through his writing life can he fully contextualize the world he inhabits. Goldblatt connects his educational journey as a poet and a teacher to his conception of literacy, and assesses his intellectual, emotional, and political develop

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy --- College teachers --- Education --- Literacy --- Biographical methods in education --- Biography in education --- Biography --- Biographical methods. --- Social aspects --- Goldblatt, Eli.

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"In Literacy as Conversation, the authors tell stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighborhoods of Philadelphia and rural and semi-rural towns of Arkansas. They define literacy not as a basic skill but as a rich, broadly interactive human behavior: the ability to engage in a conversation carried on, framed by, or enriched through written symbols. Eli Goldblatt takes us to after-school literacy programs, community arts centers, and urban farms in the city of Philadelphia, while David Jolliffe explores learning in a Latinx youth theater troupe, a performance based on the words of men on death row, and long-term cooperation with a rural health care provider in Arkansas. As different as urban and rural settings can be-and as beset as they both are with the challenges of historical racism and economic discrimination-the authors see much to encourage both geographical communities to fight for positive change"--

Rural youth --- Urban youth --- Literacy programs --- Education --- Social aspects