Constructing literacies Book

1. LITERACY NARRATIVES. Mike Rose - I Just Wanna Be Average from Lives on the Boundary. Frederick Douglass - Chapter VII from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. Helen Keller - The Day Language Came into My Life from The Story of My Life. Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) - The School Days of an Indian Girl from Atlantic Monthly. Mary Antin - Initiation from The Promised Land. Andrea R. Fishman - Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish from The Right to Literacy. Richard Rodriguez - Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood from The American Scholar. Malcolm X - Saved from The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Lydia Minatoya - Transformation from Talking to High Monks in the Snow. George Steiner - Heraldry from Granta. Suggestions for Further Reading, Thinking, and Writing. 2. THE PURPOSE OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION. Introduction. Committee of the Corporation and Academic Faculty - from Reports on the Course of Instruction in Yale College. Richard H. Hersh - Intentions and Perceptions: A National Survey of Public Attitudes toward Liberal Arts Education from Change. Wayne Booth - Is There Any Knowledge that Men and Women Must Have? from The Knowledge Most Worth Having and The Vocation of a Teacher. Mark Edmundson - On the Uses of a Liberal Education: I. As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students from Harper's Magazine. Martha C. Nussbaum - The Old Education and the Think-Academy from Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education. Denise K. Magner - Professors and Influential Alumni Join Forces to Protect Brooklyn College's Core Curriculum from The Chronicle of Higher Education. George R. Houston, Jr. - Bury the Liberal vs. Professional Arts Debate from Education. Lisa Schmeiser - Do Geeks Need to Go to College? from Salon Magazine http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/feature/1999/04/12/college/indhtml. Suggestions for Further Reading, Thinking, and Writing. 3. LITERACIES FOR A DIVERSE WORLD. Introduction. E. D. Hirsch - Literacy and Cultural Literacy and The Appendix List from Cultural Literacy. Rich Simonson and Scott Walker - Introduction and The Appendix List from Multicultural Literacy. Alan C. Purves - General Education and the Search for a Common Culture from Cultural Literacy and the Idea of General Education. Paulo Freire- The Banking Concept of Education from Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Benjamin R. Barber - America Skips School from Harper's Magazine. James Moffett - Censorship and Spiritual Education from The Right to Literacy. Svi Shapiro - A Parent's Dilemma: Public vs. Jewish Education from Tikkun. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Debate Has Been Miscast from the Start from Boston Globe. Claire Oberon Garcia - Emotional Baggage in a Course on Black Writers from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Clara Sue Kidwell - The Vanishing Native Reappears in the College Curriculum from Change. Carlos E. Cortés - Pluribus & Unum: The Quest for Community Amid Diversity from Change. Suggestions for Further Reading, Thinking, and Writing. 4. CYBERLITERACY. Introduction. Janet H. Murray - Lord Burleigh's Kiss from Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Laura Miller - www.claptrap.com from The New York Times Book Review. Kevin Hunt - The Cultural Currency of the Book from CMC Magazine http://www.December.com/cmc/mag/1998/aug/hunt.html. Sven Birkerts - Perseus Unbound from The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Paul Roberts - Virtual Grub Street from Harper's Magazine. Kelly McCollum - Ramping Up to Support 42,000 Student Computers on a Single Campus from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Todd Oppenheimer - The Computer Delusion from Atlantic Monthly. Gertrude Himmelfarb - A Neo-Luddite Reflects on the Internet from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Barbara Kantrowitz - Men, Women, and Computers from Newsweek. John Tierney - Women Ease into Mastery of Cyberspace from The New York Times. John N. Hickman - Cybercheats: Term-Paper Shopping Online from The New Republic. Suggestions for Further Reading, Thinking, and Writing. 5. AN EDUCATION OF ONE'S OWN. Introduction. This Year's Freshmen: A Statistical Profile from Chronicle of Higher Education. Ben Gose - U. of Chicago Social Life May No Longer Be an Oxymoron from Chronicle of Higher Education. The Absence of Girls in the Current Debate on Education and Achievement and Participation: What Do the Data Show? from How Schools Shortchange Girls: The AAUW Report: A Study of Major Findings on Girls and Education and Course-Taking Patterns from Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children. Judith Kleinfield - Student Performance: Males versus Females from The Public Interest. Robert A. Rhoads - Gay Liberation and the Passage of the Sexual Orientation Clause at Penn State from Freedom's Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity. D. Stanley Eitzen - Big-Time College Sports from Vital Speeches of the Day. Kathleen Green - Traditional Degrees, Nontraditional Jobs: A Degree Is Not a Life. Sentence from Occupational Outlook Quarterly. Jane Tompkins - The Cloister and the Heart from A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned. Suggestions for Further Reading, Thinking, and Writing. For Further Reading and Exploration. Index.