Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of ChangeCommunity Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change argues that the meaning and value of literacy is a function of specific local institutions. At the core of the book is an examination of one institution, Western District Adult Basic Education. Grabill moves between the case of Western District and literacy theory from disciplines like rhetoric, composition, education, sociology, and professional and technical writing in order to develop a theory of institutions and institutional change. The book enables researchers and teachers to locate spaces where change is possible within institutional systems and then work in those spaces to change the meaning and value of literacy. |
Contents
Disciplinary Gaps Institutional Power and Western District Adult Basic Education | 1 |
Locating the Meaning and Value of Literacy | 17 |
Exercising Power Who Decides Which Literacies Count? | 45 |
Utopic Visions The Technopoor and Public Access to Networked Writing Technologies Community Literacy Programs as OnRamps | 67 |
Community and Community Literacies | 87 |
Participatory Institutional Design | 119 |
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