Author: Eric Drown

Literacy rebels present institutionally-placed sponsors with a complex challenge. As I have shown in my analysis of their literacy narratives, adolescent rebels dismissive of the “values and pedagogies” of school-based writing fulfill an adolescent imperative by seeing their disengagement from school-based literacy experiences as a sign of their emerging autonomy from the authority of significant Read More …

While many people believe that literacy is prerequisite for success, some people rebel against the kinds of literacy that are most valued in our society and most taught in the schools and universities charged with preparing people for professional work. As literacy scholar Kara Poe Alexander argues, there are few of these literacy “rebels” (616), Read More …

http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/05/03/the-future-of-jobs-and-jobs-training/ A 2016 Pew Research Center survey, “The State of American Jobs,” found that 87% of workers believe it will be essential for them to get training and develop new job skills throughout their work life in order to keep up with changes in the workplace. This survey noted that employment is much higher among Read More …

http://issues.org/33-1/the-importance-of-middle-skill-jobs/ A recent international survey of adult skills by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies demonstrates the problem. The survey assessed the proficiency of adults from age 16 to 65 in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. The most recent published report includes survey Read More …

http://burning-glass.com/research/digital-skills-gap/

Many of the DPCC worksheets I’ve seen are pretty skimpy on details. These activities are designed to help you see deeper into the stories and to help you generate theories about literacy acquisition and to help you collect evidence to support your theories. For them to work that way, you’ll need to record more detail Read More …

Join us as faculty and alumni of the Health, Wellness, and Occupational Studies program discuss their recent writing work beyond the classroom. What kinds of writing are part of the job in the health professions? What is “good writing” in this field and context, and how do HWOS professionals go about their writing process? What Read More …

In College Reading and Writing, you are assessed on your fluency in seven learning outcomes.  As you know, you are intimately involved in the assessment process.  It is your responsibility to demonstrate your understanding of each learning outcome and to collect and frame artifacts as evidence of your progress towards mastery of the learning outcomes.  In our Read More …

Sponsors, as I’ve come to think of them, are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy – and gain advantage by it in some way…. Although the interests of the sponsor and the sponsor do not have to converge (and, Read More …