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Tactics and Strategies of Relationship-Based Practice: Reassessing the Institutionalization of Community Literacy
- Community Literacy Journal
- Community Literacy Journal
- Volume 5, Issue 2, Spring 2010-2011
- pp. 47-66
- 10.1353/clj.2011.a471032
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay revises Paula Mathieu's call for relationship-based tactics of engagement over institution-based strategies. Because engaged scholars operate within institutional contexts, they should utilize both tactics and strategies to make the academic institutional paradigm more conducive to relationship-based engagement. In supporting this long-term goal, community-literacy practitioners can adapt Brian Huot's theory of instructive evaluation to enable collaborative assessment of community partnerships. One possible mechanism for such institutional invention would be the establishment of quasi-strategic, quasi-tactical Community-Literacy Associations.