(DOWNLOAD) "Adaptive Intermediate Structures and Local Sustainability Advances" by Writing Program Administration ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Adaptive Intermediate Structures and Local Sustainability Advances
- Author : Writing Program Administration
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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Sheridan-Rabideau, Mary P. Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies: Activism in the GirlZone. Albany: SUNY, 2008. 204 pages. Efforts to extend research and activism from university writing programs to community sites are increasingly important for scholars, researchers, and administrators hoping to serve as, in Susan McLeod's words, change agents (112). The field's recent steps in this direction include the journal Reflections's Civic Scholarship for Outstanding Book Award, the Community Literacy Journal's mission, conversation on WPA-L and at recent conferences, and various publications--including Eli Goldblatt's Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy Beyond the College Curriculum and Linda Adler-Kassner's The Activist WPA: Changing Stories About Writing and Writers. Mary Sheridan-Rabideau's book adds to this conversation by taking us out of school-based studies on girl culture and literacy and into a grassroots feminist organization in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in the 1990s. Activist scholars and WPAs doing literacy studies in community sites will find Sheridan-Rabideau's study of the intersections of feminist activism and community literacy at GirlZone an engaging read and a valuable resource.