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Writing America : classroom literacy and public engagement / edited by Sarah Robbins and Mimi Dyer ; foreword by Paul Lauter.

Title
Writing America : classroom literacy and public engagement / edited by Sarah Robbins and Mimi Dyer ; foreword by Paul Lauter.
Publication
New York : Teachers College Press ; Berkeley, CA : National Writing Project, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Robbins, Sarah
  • Dyer, Mimi
  • National Writing Project (U.S.)
Subject
  • Community life > Study and teaching > United States
  • United States > History, Local > Study and teaching
Genre/Form
Local history
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Keeping and creating teachers' learning communities / Elyse Eidman-Aadahl -- 1. Overview: classroom literacies and public culture / Sarah Robbins -- Part I: Community studies in the classroom -- 2. Discovering the power of my place: personal journeys to a community focus / Sylvia Martinez -- 3. From personal research to community learning / Linda Templeton -- 4. A city too busy to reflect? Public history, controversy, and civic engagement / LeeAnn Lands -- 5. Uncovering a region's past to build community today: collaborative learning about Cherokee heritage / Patsy Hamby -- 6. I belong to this place: claiming a neighborhood landmark / Leslie Walker -- 7. Composing communities: college students become real research writers / Linda Stewart -- Part II: Public literacy projects and civic culture -- 8. Learning to write as a community: embracing collaborative process and product / Traci Blanchard -- 9. Writing a museum / Bonnie Webb -- 10. Building community through performance activities / Mimi Dyer -- 11. Composing history: linking community stories in a music-drama-documentary / W. Scott Smoot -- 12. History happened here: engaging communities of students and teachers / Peggy Corbett -- Keeping and creating American communities: American studies in theory and practice / Cristine Levenduski.
ISBN
0807745278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004053731^^
OCLC
55962392
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library