Literacy and Democracy: Teacher Research and Composition Studies in Pursuit of Habitable Spaces : Further Conversations from the Students of Jay Robinson

by Cathy Fleischer, Dave Schaafsma (Editor)

A collection of insights into what a democratic vision of literacy looks like in practice. Building on the work of teacher and literacy scholar Jay Robinson, these essays explore the vital relationships between literacy and society. Essays take readers into high school and college classrooms, as well as other community settings, to investigate different literacies in practice for students and teachers alike. An essay by Robinson frames the collection and offers a lively introduction to his work and its key terms. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

233 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

Reviews

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 4 out of 5]

A kind of tribute in life and research to our teacher Jay Robinson from some of his students working on literacy projects of various kinds... and the best essay is by Jay himself, his last essay, kicks all of his students's butts... I like Cathy and my intro a lot, and of my fellow student essays, I'll take a risk of insulting all of them to say I think my favorite is Todd DeStigter's... A good book that not enough people read....very carefully edited, a work of love that is useful beyond mere tribute. Jay's essay should be quoted again and again. There's a commonality in the work: mostly narrative in character, context-rich, accessible, focused on what Jay called "civil" and "civic" literacies in the context of an approach to critical literacy.