The Way Literacy Lives
Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction
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2008
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-7355-9 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-7355-9 (ISBN)
Challenges an autonomous model of literacy instruction in favor of one that recognizes and builds on students’ facility in navigating other rhetorical contexts.
Working from the premise that literacy is a social process rather than an autonomous practice, The Way Literacy Lives offers a curricular response to the political, material, social, and ideological constraints placed on literacy education. Shannon Carter argues that fostering in students an awareness of the ways in which an autonomous model deconstructs itself when applied to real-life literacy contexts empowers them to work against this system in ways critical theorists advocate. She builds upon a theoretical framework provided by new literacy studies, activity theory, and critical literacies to construct a new model for basic writing instruction, one that trains writers to effectively read, understand, manipulate, and negotiate the cultural and linguistic codes of a new community of practice based on a relatively accurate assessment of another, more familiar one.
Working from the premise that literacy is a social process rather than an autonomous practice, The Way Literacy Lives offers a curricular response to the political, material, social, and ideological constraints placed on literacy education. Shannon Carter argues that fostering in students an awareness of the ways in which an autonomous model deconstructs itself when applied to real-life literacy contexts empowers them to work against this system in ways critical theorists advocate. She builds upon a theoretical framework provided by new literacy studies, activity theory, and critical literacies to construct a new model for basic writing instruction, one that trains writers to effectively read, understand, manipulate, and negotiate the cultural and linguistic codes of a new community of practice based on a relatively accurate assessment of another, more familiar one.
Shannon Carter is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University at Commerce.
Acknowledgments
1. The Way Literacy Tests
2. The Way Literacy Oppresses
3. The Way Literacy Liberates
4. The Way Literacy Stratifies
5. The Way Literacy (Re)produces
6. The Way Literacy Lives
Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C (Sample Writing Assignments)
Appendix D
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.3.2008 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 3 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-7355-4 / 0791473554 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-7355-9 / 9780791473559 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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