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A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

Creator:

Vega-Peters, Susan T.

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Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...

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Masters Thesis

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rhetoric is a political act involving a dialectical interaction engaging the material, the social, and
Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

Creator:

Rust, Stephen

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Responsible Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the United States. Responsible educators are dedicated to being representative, responsive, and respectful. These three principles guide the best teaching and learning that are taking place in classrooms across the country. Launched in 2003, Shakespeare in American Communities is the most ambitious...

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Masters Thesis

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contemporary culture and symbolizes the battle for political and ideological superiority on a national level
Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

Creator:

Bowman, Christine D.

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Literacy is often considered to be a basic set of skills to be mastered by the student; the conventional wisdom maintains that the individual who has mastered these skills is then literate. Scholars in the field of literacy studies, however, argue that such assumptions about literacy fail to take into...

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Masters Thesis

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those who do not are at a decided disadvantage. Because this political aspect of education, which