Full Description
This rhetoric begins with the question "What is Literacy?" and invites the reader to think and write about literacy as a field of study.
Contents
1 Introduction
How Does Literacy Mean?
Literacy Then, Literacy Now: Changing Meanings of Literacy
Sites of Literacy: How This Book is Organized
Activities and Projects
For Further Reading
2 Literacy and Mind
Kids These Days: Literacy and the End of Dialogue
Letters, Thought, and Civilization
Literacy and the "Great Divide"
Literacy, Literacies, and Schooling: The Case of the Vai
Projects and Activities
For Further Reading
3 Literacy and Culture
Into the Field: Ethnographic Research on Literacy
Literacy in Action: Understanding a Literacy Event in Trackton
Talkin' Story: Texts in Literacy Events
Wired Reading, Writing and Talking: Redefining the Literacy Event
Who's Got the Power?: Analyzing Power Dynamics in Literacy Events
Seeing Literacy in Five Dimensions
What Literacy is Good For: Uses and Applications
Projects and Activities
For Further Reading
4 Literacy and Class
The Work of Literacy
Consuming Literacy, Cashing In (On) Culture
Cost of Literacy: Language and Class Identity
Going Places: Mobility and the American Dream
Projects and Activities
For Further Reading
5 Literacy and Work
A Tale of Two Workplaces
Literacy Sponsorship
What Changed in Our Economy and Ways of Doing Business?
Implications for Work and Literacy in the Knowledge Economy
Power and Social Dynamics of Literacy Teamwork in the Knowledge Economy
Tensions of Workplace Literacy Today: Opportunities and Accountability
Projects and Activities
For Further Reading
6 Literacy and Technology
Crisis and Opportunity
Stages of Literacy Technologies
From Authorship to Network
Text as Database, Writing as Remix
The Politics of Writing as Design
One Final Scenario and Activity
Projects and Activities
For Further Reading
Bibliography
Appendix: Guidelines for Literacy Projects
