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Language Of Experience: Literate Practices And Social Change (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
Gwen Gorzelsky
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Description for Language Of Experience: Literate Practices And Social Change (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
Paperback. Examines the relationship between literacy and change - both personal and social. Gorzelsky studies three cases that speak to key issues on the national education agenda. The book integrates a macro-social view of cultural, social, and discursive structures with a micro-social view of the potential for change embodied in them. Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: CFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
The Language of Experience examines the relationship between literacy and change--both personal and social. Gorzelsky studies three cases, two historical and one contemporary, that speak to key issues on the national education agenda.
\u0022Struggle\u0022 is a community literacy program for urban teens and parents. It encourages them to reflect on, articulate, and revise their life goals and design and implement strategies for reaching them. To provide historical context for this and other contemporary efforts in using literacy to promote social change, Gorzelsky analyzes two radical religious and political movements of the English Civil Wars and the 1930s unionizing movement ... Read more
The Language of Experience examines the relationship between literacy and change--both personal and social. Gorzelsky studies three cases, two historical and one contemporary, that speak to key issues on the national education agenda.
\u0022Struggle\u0022 is a community literacy program for urban teens and parents. It encourages them to reflect on, articulate, and revise their life goals and design and implement strategies for reaching them. To provide historical context for this and other contemporary efforts in using literacy to promote social change, Gorzelsky analyzes two radical religious and political movements of the English Civil Wars and the 1930s unionizing movement ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822958741
SKU
V9780822958741
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About Gwen Gorzelsky
Gwen Gorzelsky, assistant professor in the Composition Program at Wayne State University, is developing a service-learning initiative that involves undergraduate students and their graduate student instructors in Detroit communities.
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