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Grassroots Literacy

Grassroots Literacy is a community-based literacy practice that emerges organically within local, often marginalized, social groups, distinguished by its bottom-up development, collective authorship, and resistance to institutional control.

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Publications

829

Citations

22

Authors

18

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

2

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Publications

17

Writing with an Accent: Orthographic Practice, Emblems, and Traces on Facebook

Sarah Hillewaert · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology · 2015 · 166 citations

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The old man and the letter: repertoires of literacy and languaging in a modern multiethnic Gambian village

Kasper Juffermans · Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education · 2011 · 108 citations · Full text

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Grassroots literacy: writing, identity and voice in Central Africa

Gibson Ferguson · Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · 2009 · 81 citations

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Understanding and enabling marketplace literacy in subsistence contexts: The development of a consumer and entrepreneurial literacy educational program in South India

Madhubalan Viswanathan, S. Gajendiran, Rajkumar Venkatesan · International Journal of Educational Development · 2007 · 77 citations

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The Importance of Literacy in the Home Language

Susana A. Eisenchlas, Andrea C. Schalley, Diana Guillemin · SAGE Open · 2013 · 77 citations · Full text

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Authors

22

  1. JB
    Jan Blommaert

    Tilburg University, Netherlands

    2 publications · 37 citations

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  2. AC
    Andrea C. Schalley

    Griffith University, Australia

    1 publications · 77 citations

    1

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  3. MU
    Mehmood Ul Hassan

    University of Bonn, Germany

    1 publications · 22 citations

    1

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  4. KD
    Kim Donehower

    University of North Dakota, United States

    1 publications · 14 citations

    1

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  5. SH
    Sarah Hillewaert

    Michigan United, United States

    1 publications · 166 citations

    1

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Institutions

18

  1. Tilburg University

    Tilburg, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    129 citations

  2. Texas Christian University

    Fort Worth, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  3. Griffith University

    Brisbane, Australia

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    231 citations

  4. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    53 citations

  5. Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia

    Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  6. University of Babylon

    Hillah, Iraq

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  7. Auckland University of Technology

    Auckland, New Zealand

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  8. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    77 citations

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Venues

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  2. ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania)

    Repository · 1 publications · 53 citations

    1

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  3. International Journal of Multilingualism

    IJM · 1 publications · 48 citations

    1

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  4. Irrigation and Drainage

    1 publications · 22 citations

    1

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  5. Journal of Multicultural Discourses

    1 publications · 21 citations

    1

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