day two

I was surprisingly productive today. I referred back to my chart on Lefebvre’s spatial triad:
1.    Spatial Practice (Perceived Space)
a.    Seemingly rooted in materialism
b.    Embodies daily and urban realities
c.    The route that the person takes to work
d.    The use of the person’s hands and the function of the organs
e.    Not logically conceived or intellectually worked out
2.    [...]

day one of exams

today is day 1 of the 42 days of our department’s version of the general exam process (it’s actually 56 days if you count the 2 weeks that the committee gets to read what you’ve produced in those 42 days).
the first of the three questions on which I’ll be writing is as follows:
In recent decades, [...]

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: [...]

Research Plan

this is a sort of beginning for my research/dissertation plan…

considering questions of place, community, performance, education, consumption as i’m
-defining literacy and discussing activism (huge i know)
-looking at movement like…

environmental literacy>>>>>>>environmental activism
environmental education to environmental policy to env. radicalism
media literacy>>>>>>>>>>media activism
know the media to change the media to be the media

-analyzing public & political discourse about [...]

Jeri Pollock’s Can Literacy Be Environmental?

I came across this essay just recently (from the Dec. 2004 English Teaching journal) and I think it has a number of good points. However, I am caught in a form of critique (which I attribute to the voices of some writing program administrators out there) which questions any themed-composition classroom. On one hand I [...]

Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

a summary from somewhere that i forgot to properly annotate: “Goffman explores the details of individual identity, group relations, the impact of environment, and the movement and interactive meaning of information. His perspective, though limited in scope, provides new insight into the nature of social interaction and the psychology of the individual.”
the purpose:
“I assume that [...]

writing topics

as i formulate new topics to write on, i’ll be posting them. here are the most current three.
-depictions of female activists in popular culture
(i’ve found no research about this)
this could be a fun article to write. from the simpsons to the constant gardner…
-theorizing a unified media literacy
(which includes media analysis/ownership and media production as well [...]