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April 19, 2008
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”
Posted by sparks at April 19, 2008 6:45 AM