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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