Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement

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275 Index action of response, 205 adaptive competence, 125–26 agency: acts of, 53; conflicting notions of, 54, 189–98; as dialogic action, 201–5; embedded, 202–3; failures in model of, 194–95; in Five-Year Follow-Up study, 141–42; of Others, 198–205; personal, 52–53, 113–14; rhetoric of, 218–19 agents, 157, 203–5 Alan (mentor), 121–22 Alinsky, Saul D., 28, 116 alternative consciousness, 107 Anne (mentor), 160 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 126, 129, 134–35 Applebee, Arthur N., 80 Arbuckle, Christina, 24 ARGUE project, 13–14, 243n. 2 arguments, 31–32, 131 Aristotle, 80, 85–86, 257n. 17 Atwill, Janet, 212, 257nn. 16–17 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 202, 249n. 15 Baskins, Joyce, 11–12, 25, 46–47 bidialectalism, 104 Bizzell, Patricia, 92–93, 112, 131–32 Bobby (mentee), 166–67 Borg, Marcus J., 106–7 Bria (peer helper), 218 Brown, Stuart G., 114, 128 Brush, Lisa, 194, 219–20, 248n. 6 Burke, Shay La, 15 Canagarajah, A. S., 129 Carnegie Mellon Community Think Tank, 26, 118–20, 159, 220–28 case studies, 160–71 change, rhetoric of, 9–10, 85, 94, 140 Checklist for multivoiced intercultural inquiry, 233 Cintron, Ralph, 38–39, 210 CLC. See Community Literacy Center (CLC) code-switching, 129 cognitive rhetoric, 91, 249n. 10 Coles, Bill, 79–80 Coles, Robert, 156–57 collaborations: community/university, 18, 109, 122, 156; intercultural, 72; stance of resistance in, 113–16; sustainability in, 25–26 collaborative classrooms, 32 collaborative planning, 55–56, 58, 239, 249n. 15 collaborative problem solving, 40, 55–56, 71, 92, 94, 108–9, 248n. 9 college mentors, 42–43, 117–22, 155, 160– 68, 245n. 19 “Communication Breakdown” (Howard), 14–15 communicative democracy, goals of, 54–55 communities and community: of authors and mentors, 89–90; civic, 21–22; as collaborative rhetorical forums, 70– 72; of community literacy, 40; engagementof ,27–28,113–16;healthy,69–70; of knowers, 133–34; local institutions as, 24–26; symbolic, 10–11, 22–24 community conversations, 7, 13, 15–16, 43, 189–92 community folk, as term, 22–23 Community House, 11–12, 23–26, 81–82 community literacy: challenges in, 232–33; choice of term, 22; defined, 7; educational context of, 16; goal of, 41; paradox of, 83; practice of, 18–19; themes of, 45, 52–54; theoretical frameworks of, 73 Community Literacy Center (CLC): chosen name of, 75; and dialogue across differences, 10; experiment in rhetoric Italicized page numbers indicate figures. Index 276 Community Literacy Center (continued) of engagement, 81–82; Five-Year Follow -Up study, 141–48; pilot project, 46–48, 60; process of projects, 162; projects, physical setting of, 13 community-literacy rhetors, 85 community literacy scripts, 151 community literacy studies, 18 “Community Literacy Transfers” (CLC), 143–48 community outreach, 154–57 Community Problem-Solving Team, 64–66 community service, 26, 85–86, 102–5, 153, 156–57. See also service-learning community tour, 11–16 compassion, and identity, 106–7 compositionists, status of, 80–81 composition studies, 76–79, 92, 130 contact zones, 158 Coogan, David, 88 counterpublics, 37–43, 67–68, 227, 228 critical analysis rhetoric, 127–30 critical consciousness, 128–29, 133, 169, 197–98 critical literacy, 17–18, 84, 90, 243n. 3 critical-race theory, 129 cultural literacy, 130–32, 243n. 3 cultural mission, logic of, 102–4 cultural politics of difference, new, 151, 188 Cushman, Ellen, 86–87, 113–14, 135, 156– 57, 197–98, 247n. 6 Darwin, Charles, 196 Deans, Thomas, 18, 84, 109, 155 decision negotiations, 124 Deems, Julia, 63, 67–68, 246n. 5 deliberative consciousness, 200–201 deliberative democracy, 34 deliberative models, 35–36 democratic faith, 111 Dewey, John, 16–17, 75, 108–9, 116–17 dialogical pedagogy, 134 dialogic space, 94 dialogue across differences, 10, 28, 82–83, 126, 131–36 dialogues and dialogue: democratic, 107, 132; intercultural, 54–55, 135, 220–28, 239–40; meaning of, 132–33; with Others, 94, 132–36; prerequisites to, 200–201; rational-critical, 37; Socratic , 212–13 differences:bracketingof,32–33;dialogue across, 10, 28, 82–83, 126, 131–36; engagement with, 34–36, 40, 133–34, 159; as resource and obstacle, 58, 110–11, 125 discourses: academic, 244n. 12; circulation of, 37, 41, 225; of disruption, 130; elite, 127; hybrid, 40, 225–26, 251n. 5; and identity, 194; marginalized, 128; in performative rhetoric, 86; public, 136, 209–10; rational, 32–33, 35; rules of, 35–36, 240; tactical, 27–28. See also particular types of discourse discursive con...