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From the perspective of literacy-in-persons, literacy practices can  illuminate how one’s literate self is always in process, shaped from  one’s material resources, biography and history, and future  possibilities. Taken together, literacy Cartier Roadster Replica Watches events and literacy practices are well suited for examining  literacy-in-persons, illuminating how literate identities develop across  individuals’ life spans and are embedded within the histories of  communities. Literacy-in-persons, then, can add much to our  understanding of literacy practices because it highlights how literacy  exists at the intersection between things and people, people and places,  and the past and the future. In what follows, we explore Orlonia’s  literacy-in-persons to highlight how her literate self comprises a  variety of experiences from across her life span, as well as the legacy  of literacy within her community.
In other words, objects in our society [as well as actions,  interactions, gestures, and symbols] can be both things and texts, (p.  11) 5or many literacy researchers, a sociocultural perspec-ive has been  useful for studying how patterns of iniquity are reinforced through  literacy (Brandt, 2001), or “how we interpret texts depends on the  meanings we attach to the signs and symbols that surround us”  Tidmondson, 2003, p. 12). The meanings we assign to texts are shaped by  our identities, which in them-ielves consist of “histories of  opportunities granted ind opportunities denied, as well as ascending  power 3r waning worth, legitimacy or marginality of particular literate  experience” (Brandt, 2001, p. . To late,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, socioculturally oriented  literacy research has not sufficiently addressed the histories involved  in individuals’ identities as they engage in literate practice Brandt,  2001).
In seeking to understand Orlonia Phillips’s literacy-in-persons, we  avoid defining literacy solely as a set of cognitive skills and  abilities that individuals develop in formal institutions such as  schools. Rather, we approach literacy as social and cultural practice  that individuals enact in relationship to their contexts and communities  (e.g., Zook-Gumperz, 1986; Cushman, 1998; Gee, 1996; reach,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, 1983;  Street, 1984, 1995). From this socio-:ultural perspective, literacy  entails more Replica You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login than slimily decoding and encoding printed texts; rather, as Bdmondson  (2003) argued, Reading involves texts that have dispersed “into objects  to be read and enacted instantaneously” (Agger, 1989, p. 51).
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We found Holland et al.’s (1998) work on identity development useful  for addressing this limitation of literacy research. Holland et al. put  forth ‘history-in-persons” as a means of conceptualizing shifting  identities: “History-in-persons is the sediment from past experiences  upon which one improvises, asing the cultural resources available, in  response to the subject positions afforded one in the present”. Adding  Holland et al.’s “history-in-persons” to the discussion of our interests  in understanding individuals’ literacy identities has helped us frame  literate Dractice as “situated in historically contingent, socially  enacted, culturally constructed ‘worlds’” and as Deing a process of  literacy-in-persons. Literacy-in-persons is a theoretical framework for  interpreting how individuals are always forming as literate beings, as  they hone their literacy repertoires throughout their lives. Literacy  events and literacy practices are key elements for understanding  literacy-in-persons. Literacy events are the discrete activities and  observable moments that revolve around texts or the talk about text,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login,  such as reading a family recipe to bake a cake. According to Barton and  Hamilton (1998),You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, literacy events arise from and are shaped by literacy  practices, or the social processes that connect people with one another,  such as the practice of baking a cake to share at a church event. In  this way, literacy practice is useful for understanding how literate  behaviors are socially,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, culturally, and historically situated.