Historically there are certain close connections between religion and the process of literacy education. Religion has been introduced in many ways towards education; based on the teacher’s and students beliefs, and the community’s culture in their religion area. The literacy sponsors for me in my education career was the Mormon community. Through analyzing my literacy practice, it became more clear and more visual toward the Mormon community that had persuaded their religion in the schools education. Moreover, both religion and literacy is the proper behavior that improves learning and writing within the discourse community. Professor Deborah Brandts Sponsors of Literacy voices the belief that supports literacy are the things that affect the persons skill styling. As Brandt defines literacy sponsors as agent, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy-and gain advantage by it in some way (Brandt 2). Brandt argues that everything in the person determines their skill process which could suggest to the fact that each individual has their particular literacy style and means of writing. Like the fingerprint, no two peoples pieces of work would remain the same. As I think back, I know how some certain religion has influenced the way I understand writing, too as how I describe. It is amazing to consider how those similar feelings may have influenced another individuals skill in a new way by cooperating with their religion teaching s
kills.Teachers and Students Beliefs on Religion LiteracyIn my education career from first grade to twelfth grade, I lived in numerous Mormon communities in both Northern and Southern Utah. Im not religious nor Im not a Mormon, however, I was baptized in an LDS Church when I was nine years old. I was mainly pressured and forced to get baptized by the missionary members; even though Im baptized I don’t consider myself a Mormon nor do I follow the religion. The schools I went to are the public schools until high school was a private performing art school. Even though it was a public and private school, there was always a way the teachers cooperate with their beliefs into school teachings. Also, the majority of the students in my school were part of the Mormon community; on the other hand, most of my friends werent religious however I did have some that were. The ones that werent, saw the belief forceful towards your idea of life. The teachers would pressure you on your beliefs for not believing in their ways. This created a dynamic diversity toward their education; the teachers proceeded their religion onto the ones who didnt have a belief. The ones who did believe in religion, would always put their learning from their sponsors into the communication and would question why you weren’t part of a religion. The religious students would affect the non-religious students by having them feel guilty and pressured to fit into the school; to have an easier time in their education rather than it being a perspective on themselves.