Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change

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Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change

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Jeffrey T. Grabill - Author

Price: $54.50
Hardcover - 221 pages

Release Date: August 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-5071-6
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5071-0

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 221 pages

Release Date: August 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-5072-4
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5072-7

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Summary

An examination of community literacy programs--with an eye toward radical change.

This book does a wonderful job of bringing together an astounding number of provocative ideas in a way that links theory and practice. Grabill's viewpoint that institutions that affect community literacy programs can be redesigned in a participatory fashion that both empower the users of those programs and improve the institutions attempting to meet users needs' is brilliant. I haven't seen this idea anywhere in my literacy reading, and yet I am convinced that Grabill is right. Mary Sue Garay, coeditor of Expanding Literacies: English Teaching and the New WorkplaceCommunity Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change argues that the meaning and value of literacy is a function of specific local institutions. At the core of the book is an examination of one institution, Western District Adult Basic Education. Grabill moves between the case of Western District and literacy theory from disciplines like rhetoric, composition, education, sociology, and professional and technical writing in order to develop a theory of institutions and institutional change. The book enables researchers and teachers to locate spaces where change is possible within institutional systems and then work in those spaces to change the meaning and value of literacy.

Jeffrey T. Grabill is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Disciplinary Gaps, Institutional Power, and Western District Adult Basic Education

2. Locating the Meaning and Value of Literacy

3. Exercising Power: Who Decides Which Literacies Count

4. Utopic Visions, The Technopoor, and Public Access to Networked Writing Technologies: Community Literacy Programs as On-Ramps

5. Community and Community Literacies

6. Participatory Institutional Design

7. Next Steps: Tactics for Change

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

Composition and Rhetoric Studies
Literacy Studies

39734/39733(PR/CL/)

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