Van Rides in the Dark: Literacy as Involvement

Definitions:

• literacy
• noblesse oblige
• service courses
• intersubjectivity
• power parity

Distinctions:

• writing and reading are pure acts of human involvement
• failures of literacy are failures of involvement
• include institutional influences as part of involvement
• literacy names socially empowered knowledge
• to teach literacy means to teach a mode of interaction
• involvement cannot show itself as a major dynamic in reading and writing as long as our institutions encourage only the text-like virtues of objective points of view

How this pedagogy supports student's public literate actions
What they ask of teachers who desire to support such actions

texts:

• Mike Rose: Lives on the Boundary
• Brandt: A Strong Text Theory of Literacy

*one thing these stories show us is words have no meaning without experience or context behind them. Now they have prison literacy and empathy literacy, and I guess by default I don't.