The Community Literacy Network Newsletter

Community Literacy Network Newsletter

Across colleges and universities, many of us are developing university courses and lines of inquiry to address issues of community literacy. And it seems that we are asking many of the same questions: how might literacy, social institutions, and education work together to define and support social action? Our university courses that address community literacy typically share a commitment to innovative, hands-on learning through socially relevant experiences. Yet each of us teaching such a course must shape these commitments according to specific constraints and opportunities. Because of this shared dynamic, we educators have much to learn from one another; conversely, we stand to lose if working in isolation. The aim of the Community Literacy Network Newsletter is to put educators interested in issues of community literacy in touch with one another. The network is sponsored by the Community Literacy Center, a collaborative between the Community House and Carnegie Mellon University, both in Pittsburgh, PA. Editors are Elenore Long and Linda Flower.

To subscribe online to the Community Literacy Network Newsletter, request more information, or or send us your contributions to the next volume, click here. Or, if you prefer, you can contact Kathy Meinzer by email at km39+@andrew.cmu.edu or by postal mail:

Carnegie Mellon University
Center for the Study of Writing & Literacy
Dept. of English
259 Baker Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

To view or print past issues of the Community Literacy Network Newsletter, choose a volume from this list of archived issues:

CLNN Volume 7: December 1996

CLNN Volume 6: March 1996

CLNN Volume 5: November 1995

CLNN Volume 4: August 1995

CLNN Volume 3: June 1995

CLNN Volume 2: May 1995

CLNN Volume 1: March 1995