Saturday, April 19, 2008
What is our community?
What is our community?
Labor for writing instruction
Changing scholarship –what authorial voice will be read by whom?
Tenure
“popular”
Who gets to sit around the table
Methodology
Course work
Genres—CW, journalism, personal, pleasure
Shared texts
Motivations for people in this area
Political activism
Change—building relationship
What produces the push?
How do motivations become subverted or coopted?
History of the motivation
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What Is Community Literacy
What IS community literacy?
What is “community”?
What is “literacy”?
What is success & how would you measure it?
Beginner writer is not a beginning thinker
People denied the access to speak
How to bring non-standard speakers/writers into prestige discourses
Avoiding labels that shut down speech
Status quo knowledge—deficit model
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Writers Outside the Academy
Writers outside the academy
dealing with prestige languages—mutuality
Of what & For whom?
Troubling the “academy”—recruiting students who have not traditionally been a part
Tension bringing academics & community members together (or separately)
What do people already know—the thought-space of everyday people talk back to the
canonical literacy—bring everyday knowledge into wider listening—privileging knowledge
who gets to make knowledge?
Are we adding to or replacing the knowledge that has already been sustained in the communities? How are we changing, exploiting?
Oral culture got killed
Urban education—training people as outsiders to go inside a space Place as it involves all of this
Virtual
Rural
Urban
Traditional ways of “community literacy”
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Community Publishing
Ethical issues
Funding
Models
Who’s the audience & how are you going to reach them
How do people continue publishing for themselves—accessibility, sustainability
Hybrid texts—combinations of academic & community
Bringing people into public dialogue & public knowledge
What is a digital literacy center & who cares?
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Revising Our Mission: A Dialogue
At the 2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Progressive SIG and Caucus Coalition will be considering draft language of a new mission statement. Prior to that meeting, the suggested revisions are being posted to encourage comment and debate among PSCC members and progressive teachers. Among the proposed revisions is a new name, The Social Justice SIG, and an expanded set of activities.
No final decisions will be made prior to the 2008 Conference in April, so please let us know your thoughts and insights.
Proposed Mission Statement
Social and Political Justice SIG Mission Statement
We are a coalition of individuals, interest groups, and caucuses, based in the fields of rhetoric and composition, who are committed to promoting social and political fairness, equity, and justice. We seek to create collaborative partnerships between university-based activists and the larger network of activists and organizations taking on this important work.
Within the profession, we work
to develop curricula that are actively anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic and that teach voices not easily heard or too easily ignored in standard or mainstream definitions of literacy in the United States;
to create classrooms that develop critical literacy for informed citizenship, and to promote courses that represent the diverse communities from which we and our students come;
to provide mentoring and support to enable people from groups currently underrepresented in composition to enter, actively participate, gain tenure, and fully benefit from the resources of the profession;
to support the production and circulation of culturally and politically relevant progressive scholarship as well as work to provide publication venues for such work;
to ensure that CCCC establishes and enforces just labor practices and standards for all members of the profession, such as part-time writing instructors and non-tenure stream faculty;
In dialogue with community-based individuals and organizations, we work
to insure that free speech rights are protected within the academy and within the larger political community;
to work with community-organizations dedicated to insuring the social and political rights of all members of a community;
to promote community investment in education, and educational investment in communities;
to be active in the production of a new hegemony based upon political and social justice.
To this end the Political and Social Justice SIG sponsors a yearly forum at CCCC, supports the Rachel Corrie Award, develops and advertises relevant CCCC sessions, supports relevant publications and partnerships, encourages debates at local sites on these issues, and, through on-line resources, archives the progressive work of individuals and organizations involved at CCCC.
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