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Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love
Stephen Parks
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Description for Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love
Hardcover. Chronicles the history of an urban university writing program and its attempt to develop politically progressive literacy partnerships with the surrounding community while having to work within and against a traditional educational and cultural landscape. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 illustration, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JNFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
In ""Gravyland"", Parks chronicles the history of an urban university writing program and its attempt to develop politically progressive literacy partnerships with the surrounding community while having to work within and against a traditional educational and cultural landscape. He details the experience of the New City Writing program at Temple University from its beginning as a small institute with one program at a local public school to a multi-faceted organization, raising millions of dollars, and establishing partnerships across the diverse neighborhoods of Philadelphia. In doing so, the author describes classrooms where the community takes a seal and become part of ... Read more
In ""Gravyland"", Parks chronicles the history of an urban university writing program and its attempt to develop politically progressive literacy partnerships with the surrounding community while having to work within and against a traditional educational and cultural landscape. He details the experience of the New City Writing program at Temple University from its beginning as a small institute with one program at a local public school to a multi-faceted organization, raising millions of dollars, and establishing partnerships across the diverse neighborhoods of Philadelphia. In doing so, the author describes classrooms where the community takes a seal and become part of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632429
SKU
V9780815632429
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Ref
99-72
About Stephen Parks
Stephen Parks is associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University. He is the author of Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language. He is also executive director of New City Community Press and editor of Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy.
Reviews for Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love
"Gravyland is a book for all in writing and literacy studies who want not only to theorize about the world within which we teach, learn, and write but to change it." - Nancy Welch, author of Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privalized World"