Each week, 1-2 people will curate the ideas and writing from our class into a featured blog. We will use these blogs to connect with colleagues outside our course.
Hi everyone! During week 2 in Theories of Literacies, we explored all notions of what is constitutive of literacy by reading Jennifer Roswell and Kate Pahl’s “Introduction” to literacy studies in The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies. In essence, literacy is so much more than merely being able to read and write. Roswell and Pahl …
Hello all! This week we had two readings for the class. “The Social and Linguistic Turns in Studying Language and Literacy” by David Bloome and Judith Green, and the “Introduction” by Jennifer Rowsell and Kate Pahl from The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies. Rowsell and Pahl’s Introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies first …
Hello everyone! You’ve found our course website: welcome to Theories of Literacy (English 632) for fall 2022. I look forward to reading and researching together. Some thoughts about our work this semester: In one of the texts we’ll read, “Sponsors of Literacy,” Deborah Brandt offers a compelling and complex look at the concept of sponsorship. …
My Absolute Objective and Correct Opinion Based on Little Evidence and Biased Analysis By Zeth M. Martinez I was assigned to blog for February 25, 2019, but without collecting more data it has been hard to definitively define “literacy” so as to publish and profit from my findings. An assessment of the date above may …
This week in Literacy Studies: A Multilingual Kaleidoscope. We took a look into the field of Critical Literacy Education as well as a peak into the world of Bi/multi/translingual literacies. (Spoilers ahead) The first of our chapters, “Critical Literacy Education,” provides a meta analysis in order to mark the upward trend in academic articles being …
