Community Literacy News
Issues 4.1 and 4.2 available for download (PDF) |
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Full-text PDFs of issues 4.1 (Special Issue on Community Literacy & Sustainability) and 4.2 are available as free downloads:
Issue 4.1 PDF (4.2MB)
Issue 4.2 PDF (3.3MB) |
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Position Available: Director, University of Michigan Dearborn Academic Service Learning Center |
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Working Title: Director, University of Michigan Dearborn Academic Service Learning Center The director assumes leadership of the new UM-Dearborn Academic Service Learning Center (formerly the Civic Engagement Project) and reports directly to the provost. In addition to teaching two courses per academic year in his/her discipline, this Lecturer III will serve as the primary resource for service learning across the campus and administer academic programming around community-based teaching/learning. While this is a new position, civic engagement/academic service learning has been a formal component of the undergraduate experience for five years. With the hiring of a director, the scope and depth of these efforts will be broadened. |
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Call for Book Chapters: Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing |
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| Eds: Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks, Tiffany Rousculp As the field of Composition/Rhetoric continues to undertake its “public turn,” “comp/rhet” faculty and writing programs have moved beyond the university curriculum and student paper as the singular focus of work. Individual writing faculty, select writing courses, and entire programs are being joined in partnership with the “community” in an effort to develop writing projects and publications that are intended to circulate not only within the university, but within local neighborhoods, identity-based communities, and national debates. These publications can vary in size and scope from a one-page flyer to a full-fledged book, the imagined “community” can vary in size from the intimate setting of a writing group to the entire cities, but almost universally, all these publications are imagined as making an “impact.” |
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Issue 3.2 (Spring 2009) is in the mail |
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New CLJ Book & New Media Review Editor |
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"These essays will serve the purpose of collecting the sources and putting them in conversation with one another in order to appreciate where we have been as a field of study and where we will go." If you are interested in writing one of these essays -- or submitting book & media reviews -- please contact Jennifer at jdewinter@wpi.edu. |
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National Faith, Justice, and Civic Learning Conference |
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"This conference advances the understanding that our teaching, learning, scholarship, and service are enriched when we integrate the often fragmented dimensions of our institutions and greater society." Visit the conference site. |
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The Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives |
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 The Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives (DALN) encourages the use of the archives by community groups and programs. The DALN is a publicly available archive of literacy narratives in a variety of formats -- print, video, audio -- that together provide a historical record of the literacy practices and values of contributors, as those practices and values change. The DALN invites people of all ages, races, communities, backgrounds, and interests to contribute stories about how they learned to read, write, and compose meaning and how they continue to do so. We welcome all kinds of texts, both formal and informal: diaries, blogs, poetry, music and musical lyrics, fan zines, school papers, videos, sermons, gaming profiles, speeches, chatroom exchanges, text messages, letters, stories, photographs, etc. We also invite contributors to provide samples of their own writing (papers, letters, zines, speeches, etc.) and compositions (music, photographs, videos, sound recordings, etc.). Visit the (DALN) site to learn more about using this valuable resource. |
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Issue 3.2 Published |
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Issue 3.2 has been published in our Online Journal System. Visitors can review the Table of Contents and abstracts, and subscribers may download and read articles via PDF.
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Visualizing 3.2 |
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Wordle.net creates “word clouds” based on text that you enter. Here's the result of entering all of the text from all of the articles in the upcoming CLJ 3.2:  |
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Jennifer deWinter, Assistant Professor and Co-Director Professional Writing at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, joins us as Book & New Media Review Editor. Among Jennifer's goals for the Book & New Media Review section: " I will be instituting a "Keywords" essay in the book review section. Currently, there is more literature available than we are able to review in a semi-annual publication. As such, we at the journal have decided to include a thematic synthesis essay organized under key themes in the field of community literacy: community literacy (obviously), methodology, service learning, international service, youth programs, and so forth.
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