NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 8 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jamie Crosswhite – Community Literacy Journal, 2024
This article delves into an exploration of the transformative journey of integrating walking methodologies within the context of a Technical Writing in the Community service-learning course, which is offered at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) located in south Texas. These walking methods, founded on the principle of engaging the physical body…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Technical Writing, Service Learning, Physical Activities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ryder, Phyllis Mentzell – Community Literacy Journal, 2016
This essay considers the difficulty of seeing systems of oppression--a challenging first step of writing for social change. I argue that service-learning faculty and public writing scholars have relied on outdated ways of thinking about racism and oppression, treating social issues as isolated instances of discrimination. Instead, by drawing from…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Social Bias, Racial Bias, Social Change
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Coogan, David – Community Literacy Journal, 2014
Rhetorical theorists have argued that agency is a communal experience, but material conditions in jail "and" society often prevent prisoners and college students from experiencing it in meaningful ways that embrace difference. Challenging those conditions by bringing both groups together in a writing workshop enables everyone to resist…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, College Students, Barriers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lariscy, Nichole – Community Literacy Journal, 2016
This article discusses the successes and vulnerabilities associated with combining the pedagogical methods of Theater, Composition, and Community Literacy in the Composition classroom. It examines how the ideas of Augusto Boal's "Theatre of the Oppressed" and Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" can be combined to support…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Theater Arts, Literacy, Disadvantaged
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kimball, Elizabeth – Community Literacy Journal, 2015
In fields such as sociolinguistics and composition and rhetoric, communication is increasingly understood as translingual, that is, as negotiated socially across languages. Those of us engaged in community literacy can and should recognize the deeply multilingual nature of the communities in which we work, and we should understand, embrace, and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Literacy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Scott, Grete M. – Community Literacy Journal, 2010
Why, if service learning has "come a long way," has it not had the impact on the university or on the community that proponents expected? This article details interviews with eight teachers at Virginia Tech who use service learning in their classrooms, with particular attention to the convergence of literacies that occurs when teachers,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Interviews, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zwerling, Philip – Community Literacy Journal, 2009
Hidalgo County, Texas, is one of the poorest in the country. The population in the Lower Rio Grande Valley is 85% Mexican-American. Underprepared for college and juggling full time jobs, their own children, and sometimes dysfunctional extended families, students often do not expect to succeed. I recently taught a Creative Writing course which…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Creative Writing, Service Learning, Mexican Americans
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Shanahan, Timothy – Community Literacy Journal, 2008
This article explores similarities in literacy learning across various life-span stages and considers what actions must be taken to improve literacy attainment and achievement, whether the delivery site is prekindergarten, elementary, secondary, adult, family, workplace, volunteer, or community literacy. The emphasis here is on what it takes to…
Descriptors: Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction