At what place do these all intersect? How does this intersection reflect our personal, cultural, and academic identities? Furthermore, how does our definition of literacy determine what language practices we value? Consider these questions as you think about what literacy means in your own experience.
Throughout the semester, we have had many discussions about literacy. We read about literacy in Deborah Brandts Sponsors of Literacy, Andrea Fishmans Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish, and Sylvia Scribners Literacy in Three Metaphors, among other texts. You wrote an essay in response to Mike Roses discussion of literacy(s) in Lives on the … Read more