Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change

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Community 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 ...
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Overview

Community 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.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780791450710
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication date: 8/28/2001
  • Pages: 192
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1 Disciplinary Gaps, Institutional Power, and Western District Adult Basic Education 1
Ch. 2 Locating the Meaning and Value of Literacy 17
Ch. 3 Exercising Power: Who Decides Which Literacies Count? 45
Ch. 4 Utopic Visions, The Technopoor, and Public Access to Networked Writing Technologies: Community Literacy Programs as On-Ramps 67
Ch. 5 Community and Community Literacies 87
Ch. 6 Participatory Institutional Design 119
Ch. 7 Next Steps: Tactics for Change 141
Notes 163
References 175
Index 193
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