English 594-002 Practicum
in Community Literacy Fall 2010
Last updated September 30, 2010
| We are inadequately literate
in part because we have inadequate ideas about literacy. |
| Robert Pattison |
| [A]ll states of the word--oral,
chirographic, typographic, electronic--impose their own confusions,
which cannot be radically eliminated but only controlled by reflection. |
| Walter Ong,
S.J. |
| You teach a child to read and
he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. |
| The White House,
as quoted in Harper's Index, Fall 2001 |
| Professor John
Warnock (my home
page)
When and Where :
Th 9:30-12, Harvill 301
Office Hours and Location:
M 9:30-11:30, 1:30-3 and by appointment, ML
369
Office Phone: 621-7402
Connect to D2L site for the class (for threaded discussion)
To send message to Class Listserv <CL10@listserv.arizona.edu>, click here (works
only if you are at a computer configured to allow you to send email).
This course is governed by UA's Code
of Academic Integrity and Code
of Conduct. Please be sure you are familiar with both.
Syllabus may be modified with reasonable notice.
Important Note for Those Who May Do Research in Community Literacy:
If you wish to do research that involves human subjects and publish this research beyond this class, you must get approval for your research project in advance from UA's Institutional Research Board. Before you get approval, you will have to complete the IRB's online tutorial and take the online examination found here. See the RCTE Handbook and visit the site of the Office for the Responsible Conduct of Research for more information.
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Goals
Our goals are
We will try to reach these goals by means of
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experience working in the community
in settings of your choice where literacy is in focus (about 6 hours a week, proposal to be approved by professor),
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reading (about an article or chapter a week),
- writing about our praxis
- talking together in class about our experience
and reading
Assignments
Readings
Robert Pattison, On Literacy: The Politics of the Word from Homer to the Age of Rock (1984) (available on D2L site, see Class Schedule for schedule of reading)
Writing and Community Engagement: A Critical Sourcebook, Thomas Deans, Barbara Roswell, Adrian J. Wurr, eds. (2010) (To Buy)
Community Literacy Journal (free electronic access provided during this semester)
Articles and book chapters available on D2L site
Background Research
Read LLC site, What's there and what isn't
Read CLJ site, pick an issue, read, answer question: "To judge from the articles in this issue, what is "literacy"?
Interview RCTE student or graduate involved in CL and report in class and in D2L site
Literacy Praxis: Community Work and Writing
Proposal:
As soon as possible, identify a site for your community literacy work. In consultation with other workers at the site when appropriate, work up a proposal for what you will do at the site this semester. Submit a proposal about this to the folder in our D2L site. Deadline for proposal: Tuesday night, September 8. Note: Your weekly work may change. We'll keep up with these changes in the weekly writings.
Weekly Writing:
- By Tuesday night of each week, post to
our D2L site
- an informal, reflective Praxis Account of your experience at your literacy site during the
previous week, maybe 200 words. Try to write so as to inform your classmates (and future Practicummers) what kind of experience you are having. In a Freirian spirit, pose problems that may be of interest.
- a question that is raised for you by the week's reading.
- By the Tuesday after our last
class meeting, post to our D2L
site a Description of Your Semester's Work suitable for a collection of such descriptions for use by other students in the Practicum who are in search of a site (200 words or so). webpage
(see webpage for examples).
N.B.
- If you would like to write a scholarly seminar paper this semester, let me know by the second class so we can begin to develop a plan and schedule. I am happy to support you in this. A seminar paper will not be required in this class otherwise.
- If you would like to begin to develop a research project that you might work with beyond the semester, let me know when you have an idea about this so we can explore possibilities.NB: when your research involves human subjects, you must do the training and get advance approval from the IRB.
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Schedule
| August 26 |
Introduction to basic concepts: the domain of "community literacy" (not service learning). The mode of study: "praxis." And back to the idea of "literacy."
Introduction to community literacy in Tucson: Literacy for Life Coalition - website and providers.
Visits from some providers: Katie Silvester, Patty Anders, Sara Howe, Erec Toso, Amy Hickman, Ben Ristow, Betty Stauffer, Regina Kelly, Adela Licona, Regina Suitt?
Begin identifying sites for your praxis. |
| September 2 |
Pattison, Ch. 1, "Blithering Agamemnon: The Borders of Literacy" and introduction to the Community Literacy Journal (D2L). Proposals due by next Tuesday.
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| 9 |
Pattison, Ch. 2, "Chief Cobb vs. Themistocles: The Technologies of Rhetoric, Reading and Writing"(D2L) |
| 16 |
Pattison, Ch. 3, "Word against Empire: Literacy and Power"(D2L) |
| 23 |
Pattison, Ch. 4, "When Media Collide: Literacy and the Advent of Print"(D2L) |
| 30 |
Pattison, Ch. 5, "Iran to Ann Landers: Fallacies about Literacy and Development"(D2L) |
| October 7 |
Pattison, Ch. 6, "Hopefully into the Future"; and from Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1977) (D2L) |
| 14 |
Dennis Baron, From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies and and from Chris Atton, Alternative Media, London: Sage Publications, 2002 (D2L) |
| 21 |
Jeffrey Grabill, Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change, 2001, I (D2L) |
| 28 |
Jeffrey Grabill, Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change (2001), II, and from Ellie Rennie, Community Media: A Global Introduction. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006 (D2L) |
| November 4 |
TK WCE Christina Keating, “Coalitional Consciousness-Building,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 17:2 (2005) |
| 11 |
TK WCE from Brian Street, Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography, and Education, 1995 ((D2L) |
| 18 |
TK WCE from David Barton and Mary Hamilton, Local Literacies (1998) and from
Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. (D2L) |
| 25 |
TK WCE from Linda Flower, Elenore Long, Lorraine Higgens, Learning to Rival: A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry (2000) (D2L) |
| December 2 |
TBA |
| 9 |
TBA |
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Final
Gathering |
Links
Community Literacy Journal, started in 2007, edited by Michael Moore of DePaul University (a former RCTE grad student who took this Practicum in 1997) and John Warnock of the University of Arizona
Reflections, a journal
The archival site for RCTE's Practicum
in Community Literacy [Note: This site is being revised this semester
with help from Michael Moore<mmoore46@DePaul.edu>.
Suggestions welcome.]
Portal for the Literacy for Life Coalition of Tucson, local providers, resources, news.
Pima College Adult Education, Tucson's
principal institution for community literacy work.
Volunteer Center
of Tucson, a searchable site that offers opportunities for volunteer
work in literacy
RCTE graduate Danika Brown's monograph, Putting
It Together: A Method for Creating Service Learning Partnerships Based in
Critical Pedagogy, done with the assistance of a Fellowship from the
Corporation for National Service (PDF 360K)
Danika's
suggested Service Learning, Civic, Nonprofit, and Community Resource links.
Other Local and National Sites:
National Institute for Literacy,
federal agency created by the National Literacy Act of 1991.
LINCS, described
as "the literacy community's gateway to the world of adult education
and literacy resources on the Internet." Searchable
National Assessments of Adult
Literacy 2002
Backfiles from Carnegie-Mellon's Community
Literacy Center (1986-96)
Saint Paul Community Literacy
Consortium in Minnesota
Lindy Boggs National Center
for Community Literacy in New Orleans
Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA
United Nations Educational
and Scientific Organization which has been involved in literacy education for development for decades
Corporation for National
Service home page (sponsors of Americorps and more)
Nonprofit
groups concerned with issues of literacy, technology, and democracy:
The
Loka Institute: Making Research, Science & Technology Responsive to Democratically
Decided Social & Environmental Concerns
Center
for Democracy and Technology
The
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL 2003)
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducted a nationally representative assessment of the English language literacy skills of American adults age 16 and older. The NAAL 2003 provided the first assessment of the nation’s progress in adult literacy since 1992. To see results of the survey: nces.ed.gov/naal
Links to other Adult Literacy and Education Resources
Adult Literacy & Technology Network
www.altn.org
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
www.aaace.org
American Council on Education & GED Testing Service
www.acenet.edu
American Library Association
www.ala.org
Commission on Adult Basic Education, Inc. (COABE)
www.coabe.org
Community Partnerships for Adult Learning (C-PAL)
www.c-pal.net
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy
www.caalusa.org
Learning Disabilities Association of America, Inc.
www.ldanatl.org
NALS Synthetic Estimates of Adult Literacy
https://www.casas.org/home/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.showContent&MapID=124
Southern LINCS, Special Collection, Literacy and Learning Disabilities
ldlink.coe.utk.edu
National Center for Family Literacy
www.famlit.org
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
www.ncsall.net
National Center on Adult Literacy and International Literacy Institute
www.literacy.org/HTMs/ncal.htm
National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium
www.naepdc.org
National Institute for Literacy
www.nifl.gov
National Institute for Literacy’s LINCS
www.nifl.gov/lincs/search/search.html
TESOL Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
www.tesol.org
Thinkfinity (Verizon Foundation)
www.thinkfinity.org
U.S. Department of Education
www.ed.gov
U.S. Office of Vocational and Adult Education
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/index.html
Voice of Adult Learners United to Educate (VALUE)
www.valueusa.org
Selected Works on Literacy and Literacy Work
Brice-Heath, Shirley.
Ways with Words:Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms. 1983
Brandt, Deborah. Literacy in American Lives. New York: Cambridge U P, 2001
Goldblatt, Eli. Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy Beyond the College Curriculum. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2007
Grabill, Jeffrey T. Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change. Albany: SUNY P, 2001
-----.Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton P, 2007
Literacy : A Critical Sourcebook. Ellen
Cushman, Gene R. Kintgen , Barry M. Kroll, Mike Rose,
Eds. Bedford/St. Martins, 2001
Pattison, Robert. On Literacy: The Politics of the Word from Homer to the Age of Rock. Oxford UP, 1984
Street, Brian V. Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development Ethnography and Education, Longman 1995
