Eating On The Street: Teaching Literacy in a Multicultural Society (Composition, Literacy, and Culture) - Hardcover

David Schaafsma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822937581 ISBN 13: 9780822937586

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994

Synopsis

This is an account of how 30 African-American children from a poor area of Detroit, were enrolled in the Dewey Center Community Writing Program, aiming to promote literacy and enable the exploration and interpretation of the children's community. The heart of the project lay in storytelling.

About this title

About the Author

David Schaafsma is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. he is coeditor of Literacy and Democracy: Composition Studies and Literacy in Search for a Habitable Space, Further Conversations from the Students of Jay Robinson.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822937581
• ISBN 13: 9780822937586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256