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Gottschalk Druschke, Caroline; Dean, Tamara; Higgins, Margot; Beaty, Marissa; Henner, Lisa; Hosemann, Robin; Meyer, Julia; Sellers, Ben; Widell, Sydney; Woser, Tenzin – Community Literacy Journal, 2022
This profile features the authors' shared work to co-create both a community literacy project, Stories from the Flood, and the undergraduate community-based learning courses that supported the effort. Stories from the Flood works to assist community members in southwestern Wisconsin to share their flood experiences, aiming to support community…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Undergraduate Study, Community Education, Natural Disasters
Moon, Sarah – Community Literacy Journal, 2022
This article presents a profile of the community writing and performance project Write Your Roots, organized by the author, which was disrupted by the impact of COVID-19 in early 2020. The project narrative is framed by the theoretical basis for the project, rooted in the concept of "making space," which borrows from Michel de Certeau's…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Community Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics
Hill, Amanda – Community Literacy Journal, 2020
This paper considers the practical and theoretical methodologies of the community literacy project, "The Recipe of Me," conducted with homeless youth in Orlando, Florida. In this project, youth created personal, mediatized narratives in a storytelling residency aimed at examining the role of digital storytelling in fostering confidence,…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Community Programs, Story Telling, Literacy Education
Mathieu, Paula – Community Literacy Journal, 2020
In this article, Paula Mathieu shares a few lessons about what she now sees as the contemplative call of community writing, which is at once personal, political, historical, and pedagogical. If people are going to do community-based work ethically and, mindful of past and present racial and other political wounds, they need to do their work…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Collaborative Writing, Personal Narratives, Ethics
Feigenbaum, Paul – Community Literacy Journal, 2019
During a sabbatical semester in Fall 2018, "Community Literacy Journal (CLJ)" co-editor Paul Feigenbaum volunteered as a "Scholar-in-Residence" at Youth Enrichment Services (YES), a nonprofit established in 1994 that is based in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Guided by its mission "to create hope out of…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Urban Areas, Mentors, Student Empowerment
House, Veronica – Community Literacy Journal, 2016
Influenced by ecological theories of writing, the author proposes a new model for writing curriculum design and community-based projects. The article provides a project of the Writing Initiative for Service and Engagement at the University of Colorado Boulder as an example of programmatic engagement with a community issue using an ecological…
Descriptors: Ecology, Models, Writing Instruction, Curriculum Design
Kimball, Elizabeth – Community Literacy Journal, 2015
In fields such as sociolinguistics and composition and rhetoric, communication is increasingly understood as translingual, that is, as negotiated socially across languages. Those of us engaged in community literacy can and should recognize the deeply multilingual nature of the communities in which we work, and we should understand, embrace, and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Literacy
Licona, Adela C.; Gonzales, J. Sarah – Community Literacy Journal, 2013
This article highlights Education/Connection/Action (ECA), a locally developed community pedagogy deployed at a youth activism summer camp that served as a site for a community/academic teaching and research collaboration. Youth considered connections between a set of issues, including a local ban on Ethnic Studies, the School-to-Prison Pipeline,…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Summer Programs, Activism, Literacy
Remley, Dirk – Community Literacy Journal, 2012
This essay presents perspectives on the range of potential reciprocity in literacy research and service learning, focusing attention on opportunities for individualized and institutional reciprocation, as observed by Takayoshi and Powell (2003). Researchers and students involved in community-based research or service programs have several…
Descriptors: Literacy, Service Learning, Educational Research, Community Programs
Jolliffe, David Alton – Community Literacy Journal, 2012
As the author does his job, trying to sponsor and support reading and writing practices that will ideally enrich lives and communities throughout Arkansas, he is always tempted to rewrite the American Declaration of Independence so that its second paragraph begins this way: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created…
Descriptors: Freedom, Literacy Education, Cultural Capital, Rural Areas
Gring-Pemble, Lisa M.; Garner, Pamela – Community Literacy Journal, 2010
In this essay, we explain the development, implementation, and preliminary findings of an innovative writing program that drew upon a peer collaborative model and a community literacy perspective. Developed as an after school program, this project represented a community-university partnership designed to provide an enjoyable forum for teaching…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Writing Instruction, Literacy Education, Peer Relationship
Roberts, Mark; Clabough, Casey – Community Literacy Journal, 2007
This article presents the experience and emotional responses of the two authors and the content of the Writing Workshop Manual that they created for the Caretta Community Center in McDowell County, West Virginia. Their technique shows not only the contrast of their private and public personas but also some of the outsider/insider dialogue that…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Counties, Community Centers, Writing (Composition)
Cline, Andrew R. – Community Literacy Journal, 2006
Integrity is commonly conflated with basic literacy in assessments of the skills workers need. This case study of a word-based character education program in Springfield, Missouri examines how business leaders may blame a lack of skills by employees on a lack of moral literacy. The premise of this essay is that the expression of a literacy program…
Descriptors: Literacy, Values Education, Community Programs, Integrity
Bowen, Betsy – Community Literacy Journal, 2006
For nineteen years, Mercy Learning Center, a community-based literacy organization, has provided basic literacy instruction to low-income women in Bridgeport, Connecticut. During that time it has grown from three students and two tutors to 450 students, 155 tutors, and five full-time teachers. This growth has been affected by changes in welfare…
Descriptors: Females, Holistic Approach, Learning Centers (Classroom), Tutors