The Ideology Theories Will Vary within Each Community

While my peer adequately describes in Barton and Hamilton’s, “Understanding Literacy as a Social Practice,” I would just like to reiterate the “Ideology” of how literacy can be most effective within a given community. This effectiveness within the community occurs through Ethnography, Sociolinguistic, Anthropological and Psychological studies. Through these studies, the greater understanding of a communities literacy studies leads to a greater understanding of the needs of the communities; thus, enabling theorist to provide better networks and roles of literacy ideologies within the communities.
Barton and Hamilton point out oppression and social inequality as a possible means of oppression which in turn, as I see it, a great motivator for the desire to overcome oppression for one’s own personal and family gain. So, for those people who choose to devote their lives reducing social inequalities and redefine knowledge and power get two thumbs up in my book.
In terms of her response to Farr she is correct in regards to literacy not always an option. Although if a closer look were to be taken on the private homes we might see that Mexicanos are in a transformation from colonization and industrial revolutions. This change has created a further gap due to capitalism; therefore, creating a larger gap of motivation. Each communities needs change within each speech community, so there are many factors to be considered within every speech community.