Re: Rich, powerful literacies

[Gloria Pipkin <gpipkin@I-1.NET>]

Erwin, when literacy is used in the singular, it implies just that, a
singular literacy, one dominant form privileged over all others.  The
reality is that we're all members of any number of discourse communities,
which have their own forms, modes, conventions, vernacular, registers, etc.
that govern how we talk, read, write among ourselves.

This is the gospel according to GP, and may not reflect what the NCTE groups
meant.

These powerful literacies excite such fear and loathing because they equip
us poor and working class types to critique the rich and powerful.

Gloria
gpipkin@i-1.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Erwin Morton" <erwin@MORTON.NET>
>
> Perhaps "rich, powerful literacy" means the literacy of
> the rich and powerful?
>
> And I know what literacy is (or I think I do); but what
> are "literacies"?
>
> --Erwin
>
>
> Gloria Pipkin wrote:
>
> > It's significant, I think, that the use of the word "powerful" in
connection
> > with school literacy caused such shivers of cynicism on this list.
We're
> > used to school literacy being of the functional kind: teach 'em to read
only
> > well enough to follow directions and write well enough to take dictation
. .
> > . serve the global economy.

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