literacy definitions

*this post will be continually edited with each book read to compile a sort of “greatest hits”*
Literacy Event
“Any occasion in which a piece of writing is integral to the nature of the participants’ interactions and their interpretative processes’” (Heath 1982).
Literacy Event vs Literacy Practices
“Literacy events are the particular activities in which literacy has a role: [...]

Healthcare and Graduate Students

Someone once said that revolutions only come about when people are physically impacted–physically uncomfortable–otherwise change is only talked about.
In May I started designing a university-wide graduate student survey about healthcare. At LSU (and at many (most?) universities) graduate students are offered the same healthcare plan as undergraduate students. Now, this is obviously problematic for many [...]

Jailing Activists for the War on Terror

In another event which lets me know that our free speech is going the way of China’s, blogger and freelance journalist Josh Wolf was jailed last week for refusing to turn over video of a anti-WTO/G8 protest in San Francisco last summer.
Media coverage of this jailing has likened the situation to that of NYTimes’ Judith [...]