Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments This book is more than anything an acknowledgment of the work of others. I feel privileged to have been a part of the people who made up the Community Literacy Center. It was a source of lasting relationships , joyously exhausting experiences, and intellectual inspiration that became a seedbed for new ideas. This book is deeply and particularly indebted to the vision of Wayne Campbell Peck, Joyce Baskins, Timothy Flower, Lorraine Higgins, and Elenore Long and to the writing and imagination of ten years of teenagers, community neighbors, and college mentors. And it has been shaped as well by valued colleagues like Shirley Brice Heath, Mike Rose, Eli Goldblatt, Glynda Hull, Amanda Young, Ellen Cushman, Tom Deans, Dave Coogan, and others whose own work in building and writing about transformative community relationships has helped me understand what is possible and indeed what we were up to. As a writer, I am most grateful for the comments various people have made on this manuscript, particularly the good advice of Dave Coogan, Alan Friedman, Lorraine Higgins, Susan Jarratt, Ian Rawson, Mike Rose, and Ira Shor. Elenore Long has been an intellectually and personally generous reader, giving me comments, encouragement, and insight as she completed her own comprehensive look at literacy. And Tim Flower’s proofreading marginalia made editing almost fun. Figure 6.1 from Problem Solving Strategies for Writing in College and Community was used with permission from Thomson Learning. A version of chapter 6 previously appeared as “Intercultural Inquiry and the Transformation of Service” in College English. Copyright 2002 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Used with permission. A version of chapter 7 previously appeared as “Talking across Difference : Intercultural Rhetoric and the Search for Situated Knowledge” in College Composition and Communication. Copyright 2003 by the National Council off Teachers of English. Used with permission. Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement ...