Community literacy and the rhetoric of local publics

Summary: "Offering a comparative analysis of community-literacy studies, [this book] traces common values in diverse accounts of "ordinary people going public." Elenor Long offers a rich theoretical framework for reviewing emergent community-literacy projects, examines pedagogies that educators can use to help students to go public in the course of their rhetorical education at college, and adapts local-public literacies to college curricula." (from back cover) Scholarly in tone, this volume would be useful for researchers and educators.

Record details

ISBN: 9781602350564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781602350571 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781602350588 (adobe ebook)
Physical Description: print
295 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: West Lafayette, Ind. : Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse, c2008.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction and overview -- Definitions and distinctions -- Locating community literacy studies -- An impromptu theater: a local public that turns its back on formal institutions -- The cultural womb and the garden: local publics that depend on institutions to sponsor them -- The link and gate: local publics that intersect with public institutions -- The community-organizing effort and the community think tank: local publics forged in partnership with formal institutions -- The shadow system: a local public that defies formal institutions -- Pedagogical practices -- Glossary.