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Community literacy and the rhetoric of public engagement / Linda Flower.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flower, Linda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literacy--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Literacy.
- Literacy--Social aspects--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Literacy programs--Case studies.
- Literacy programs.
- Literacy programs--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Intercultural communication--Case studies.
- Intercultural communication.
- Intercultural communication--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Case studies.
- English language.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- Literacy--Social aspects.
- Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement explores the critical practice of intercultural inquiry and rhetorical problem-solving that encourages urban writers and college mentors alike to take literate action. Author Linda Flower documents an innovative experiment in community literacy, the Community Literacy Center in Pittsburgh, and posits a powerful and distinctively rhetorical model of community engagement and pedagogy for both marginalized and privileged writers and speakers. In addition, she articulates a theory of local publics and explores the transformative potential of alternative discourses and counter-public performances.
- Contents:
- What is community literacy?
- Taking literate action
- Images of engagement in composition studies
- Who am I? What am I doing here?
- Images of empowerment
- Intercultural inquiry and the transformation of service
- The search for situated knowledge
- Taking rhetorical agency
- Affirming a contested agency
- Intercultural inquiry : a brief guide.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809328529
- 0809328526
- OCLC:
- 171151558
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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