A Refl ection on Teaching and Learning in a Community Literacies Graduate Course

Michele Fero Michigan State University ; Jim Ridolfo Michigan State University ; Jill McKay Michigan State University ; Deborah Vriend Van Duinen Michigan State University ; Jason Wirtz Michigan State University ; Ellen Cushman Michigan State University ; Jeffrey Grabill

Abstract

Th is article outlines one potential model for a graduate–level course in community literacy studies. Ellen Cushman and Jeffrey Grabill taught this course for the first time at Michigan State University in the spring of 2007. In this article our colleagues with varying disciplinary backgrounds reflect on the course, its readings, and their theoretical and practical understanding surrounding many of the central questions of this new discipline: what is a community? What is literacy? What is community literacy? And what does it mean to practice “community literacy”—to write, to speak, and so on? After a wide discussion of course experience from several student colleagues in the course, Cushman and Grabill reflect on their course objectives and point toward future incarnations of the course.

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Community Literacy Journal
Published
2007-04-01
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10.25148/clj.1.2.009520
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