Literacy in Composition Studies Feb 2021 RSS Open Access

Misguided Expectations: The Ideological Framework of the Autonomous Model

Nancy G. Barrón Northern Arizona University ; Sibylle Gruber Northern Arizona University

Abstract

rian Street reminds us that literacy practices-the "broader cultural conception of particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing in cultural contexts" ("What's 'New'" 79) -are always social acts and have to be defined in relation to the historical, economic, and political contexts in which they take place. As such, literacy is "always rooted in a particular world-view" and always "contested in relation to power" . Our introduction to this understanding of literacy practices as graduate students in the early 1990s gave us confidence that our literacy experiences as a Latina and as an international student from Austria would be addressed and valued. However, more than 15 years later, we are not sure how our own literacy experiences are reflected in our academic environments, and whether our literacy practices, like the practices of so many of our students and faculty colleagues, are social acts that have continued to be "contested in relation to power. "

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Literacy in Composition Studies
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2021-02-12
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10.21623/1.8.2.9
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