Challenging How English Is Done: Engaging the Ethical and the Human in a Community Literacies Seminar.

Weinstein, Susan; Cornelius, Jeremy; Kenny, Shannon; Leung, Muriel; Liew, Grace Shuyi; Lyons, Kieran; Torres, Alejandra; Tougas, Matthew; Webb, Sarah

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ERIC Number: EJ1150885

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2016

Pages: 16

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Challenging How English Is Done: Engaging the Ethical and the Human in a Community Literacies Seminar

Weinstein, Susan; Cornelius, Jeremy; Kenny, Shannon; Leung, Muriel; Liew, Grace Shuyi; Lyons, Kieran; Torres, Alejandra; Tougas, Matthew; Webb, Sarah

Community Literacy Journal, v10 n2 p27-42 Spr 2016

Eight English graduate students and a professor reflect on their semester-long exploration of community literacy studies. The students, some in a MFA Creative Writing program and some doing doctoral work in literature, rhetoric, or English Education, discuss how the community literacies lens unsettled their relationship to English Studies.

Descriptors: Community Education, Literacy, Seminars, Graduate Students, College English, Criticism, Creative Writing, Reflection, Transformative Learning, Doctoral Programs, Ethics, Humanization

Community Literacy Journal. Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse, DePaul University, 802 West Belden Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614. Tel: 906-370-0206; Web site: http://communityliteracy.org/

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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Louisiana

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