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Embracing Vernacular Literacies

Embracing Vernacular Literacies R e v i ew s The Way Literacy Lives: Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction. By Shannon Carter. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Jamey Gallagher Context is all the rage. Compositionists are currently writing about embodied literacies, formulating ecological metaphors for writing and research (ecocom - position, for instance), and finding connections between the discursive and the material (for example, applying the sociological concept of thirdspace to the teaching of writing). Shannon Carter’s The Way Literacy Lives: Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction is a valuable addition to this growing canon. Primarily a contextualization of her pedagogy, which, in turn, conte- x tualizes literacy for students who have been labeled “basic writers,” Carter’s book describes how literacy is lived in one basic writing program. Through stories, many from Carter’s own personal and teaching life, the book raises issues of the moment in the e fi ld, couching them in a call for a new curriculum and a new pedagogy that could potentially benet m fi arginalized students. Carter calls her pedagogy “rhetorical dexterity,” which she describes as “a pedagogical approach that develops in students the ability to effectively read, understand, manipulate, and negotiate the cultural http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

Embracing Vernacular Literacies

Gallagher, Jamey
Pedagogy , Volume 11 (1) – Jan 1, 2011
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R e v i ew s The Way Literacy Lives: Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction. By Shannon Carter. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Jamey Gallagher Context is all the rage. Compositionists are currently writing about embodied literacies, formulating ecological metaphors for writing and research (ecocom - position, for instance), and finding connections between the discursive and the material (for example, applying the sociological concept of thirdspace to the teaching of writing). Shannon Carter’s The Way Literacy Lives: Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction is a valuable addition to this growing canon. Primarily a contextualization of her pedagogy, which, in turn, conte- x tualizes literacy for students who have been labeled “basic writers,” Carter’s book describes how literacy is lived in one basic writing program. Through stories, many from Carter’s own personal and teaching life, the book raises issues of the moment in the e fi ld, couching them in a call for a new curriculum and a new pedagogy that could potentially benet m fi arginalized students. Carter calls her pedagogy “rhetorical dexterity,” which she describes as “a pedagogical approach that develops in students the ability to effectively read, understand, manipulate, and negotiate the cultural

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