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Unsustainable : re-imagining community literacy, public writing, service-learning and the university /

Unsustainable: Re-imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing, Service-Learning, and the University, edited by Jessica Restaino and Laurie Cella, explores short-lived university/community writing projects in an effort to rethink the long-held "gold standard" of long-term sustainability in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
Colección:Cultural studies/pedagogy/activism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Taking Stock of Our Past and Assessing the Future of Community Writing Work; I: Short-Lived Projects, Long-Lived Value; Chapter One: After Tactics, What Comes Next?; Chapter Two: Tales from the Crawl Space: Asserting Youth Agency within an Unsustainable Education System; Chapter Three: Strategic Speculations on the Question of Value: The Role of Community Publishing in English Studies; Chapter Four: Everyone Loved It and Still It Closed: When a Writing Program Isn't a Core Mandate; II: Community Literacy, Personal Contexts.
  • Chapter Five: Sustainability Deferred: The Conflicting Logics of Career Advancement and Community EngagementChapter Six: Hope and Despair, Risk and Struggle: (j)WPA Work, Service-Learning, and the Case for Baby Steps; Chapter Seven: Mobile Sustainability: An Adjunct's Development of a Permanent Practice; III: Pedagogy; Chapter Eight: Assessing Sustainability: The Class That Went Terribly Wrong; Chapter Nine: The Idea of a Literacy Dula; IV: Calls for Transnational Sustainability; Chapter Ten: No More Than Fire Belongs to Prometheus: Techne, Institutions, and Intervention in Local Public Life.
  • Chapter Eleven: Mastery, Failure, and Community Outreach as a Stochastic Art: Lessons Learned with the Sudanese Diaspora in PhoenixConclusion: Rejecting Binaries and Rethinking Relationships; Afterword; Index; About the Authors.