The Community Literacies Collaboratory, the flagship program of the Brown Chair in English Literacy, recently sponsored the highly successful 2024 Six Bridges Book Festival, which ran from Sept. 22-29. Named for the six bridges that connect the downtowns of Little...
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When Robots Come Home to Roost: The Differing Fates of Black Language, Hyper-Standardization, and White Robotic School Writing (Yes, ChatGPT and His AI Cousins)
This article original appeared Dr Kynard's blog, Education, Liberation & Black Radical Traditions for the 21st Century. To read the original article, click here. Odd as it sounds, I like to occasionally troll though websites and public documents that writing...
Participatory Pedagogies: An Approach to Meeting the Needs and Elevating the Desires of Adult Undergraduate Writers
Influential figure in adult education Paulo Freire’s educational philosophies treat adults as complex human beings and critique educational standardization in favor of helping adult learners acquire the literacies most appropriate for their needs and goals.1 Freire...
Stepping Outside the (Straight) Box: Queering Literacy in the First Year Writing Classroom
On a late Summer evening in 2022, I finalized the syllabus for my first year writing class: roiling with both blind terror as a new graduate instructor of record, and inquisitive enthusiasm as a budding scholar so passionate about this work. I didn’t know what the...
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On the Power and Play of Literacy, or Welcome to The Sandbox
Dear Readers, I both can and cannot believe you are reading the inaugural issue of The Sandbox: Short Papers, Big Ideas on Literacy and Learning, the official scholarly and pedagogical publication of the Community Literacies Collaboratory (CLC), the...
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