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.
Reading Summary: Lessons from Research with Language-Minority Children Moll and Gonzalez (1994) use four language minority examples to explore and advocate for utilization of various literacies for accessing knowledge resources and extending beyond the limited, learning boundaries of the “typical” classroom. The author’s first, and ideal, example of such an approach is represented in the …
In “The Right (Write) Start: African American Language and the Discourse of Sounding Right,” Anne Haas Dyson and Geneva Smitherman discuss how dialect, particularly African American Language (AAL), plays into a classroom where a standardized version of English is valued. Their outline of their research discusses their goals of the article and tells readers that …
Brandt and Clinton- “Limits of the Local: Expanding Perspectives on Literacy as a Social Practice” In the introduction to this piece an important quote stood out as defining the goals of Brandt and Clinton. “To open new directions for literacy research we suggest more attention be paid to the material dimensions of literacy. Drawing on …
New Literacy Studies in Practice Street’s argument is positioned in direct conversation with Brandt & Clinton’s (2002) “Limits of the Local,” in that it illuminates the divide between local and global literacies. Street (2003) acknowledges that Brandt and Clinton (2002) create a “helpful way of characterizing the local / global debate in which literacy practices …
Collins & Blot – “The Literacy Thesis” (A review of an old theory) “The Great Divide” — Literacy, the ability to read and write, is purported to be the catalyst of cognitive, cultural, and social reformation into “modernity.” On one side of this debate, literacy is seen as the defining aspect that allows for the …
