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Book Commentary 27 A cautious endorsement of English curricular reform at all levels. (Ex)panding (Lit)eracies: Taking English Out of Bounds Evelyn Vidal Johnson 401 Garnet Street Houghton, MI, 49931 johnsonevelyn@hotmail.com Expanding Literacies: English Teachingand the New Workplace, a collection of essays compiled by Stephen Bernhardt and Mary Sue Garay, is dedicated to a single premise: that the English classroom at all levels should expand their notions of literacy in order to help prepare students for the workplace. While I can imagine some traditional English teachers resisting such an initiative, I have heard many novice and veteran teachers arguing for more relevant curricula and instructional materials. As a recent graduate of a secondary English education program, I am simultaneously skeptical and excited about this collection. I wish it had been included in my instructional methods courses because it raises important arguments about the aims and means of education. Those teachers and workplace writers who do read this book, and argue about it across the divide between schoolhouse and workplace, will be more able to articulate human relationships with computer technology and the purpose for education in a world of rapidly expanding literacies. Those arguments will help seed educational reform
ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Nov 1, 1999
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