Everyday Literacy in the Frame

Abstract

This chapter introduces how the book brings together perspectives from literacy studies with a wider focus on the impact of policy on everyday lives. Literacy is positioned as a lens through which we can examine the complex and interrelated ways in which these wider contexts contribute to injustice. Nancy Fraser’s three-dimensional framework of justice is introduced, as well as her concept of the frame. This allows us to see the ways in which everyday lives of families and communities, and literacy practices which are part of them, are shaped by dominant discourse, policy, and political structures. Attention to the frame, and the processes by which it is set, also offers the means for research in literacy to contribute to wider social change.