Unsustainable: Re-imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing, Service-Learning, and the University

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Laurie J. C. Cella Jessica Restaino

Unsustainable

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Re-imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing, Service-Learning, and the University

Laurie J. C. Cella, Jessica Restaino

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Lexington Books
14 December 2012

Writing & editing guides; Communication studies; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Adult literacy guides & handbooks

Series: Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism

Unsustainable: Re-imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing, Service-Learning, and the University, edited by Jessica Restaino and Laurie Cella, explores short-lived university/community writing projects in an effort to rethink the long-held “gold standard” of long-term sustainability in community writing work. Contributors examine their own efforts in order to provide alternate models for understanding, assessing, and enacting university/community writing projects that, for a range of reasons, fall outside of traditional practice. This collection considers what has become an increasingly unified call for praxis, where scholar-practitioners explore a specific project that fell short of theorized “best practice” sustainability in order to determine not only the nature of what remains—how and why we might find value in a community-based writing project that lacks long-term sustainability, for example—but also how or why we might rethink, redefine, and reevaluate best practice ideals in the first place. In so doing, the contributors are at once responding to what has been an increasing acknowledgment in the field that, for a variety of reasons, many community-based writing projects do not go as initially planned, and also applying—in praxis—a framework for thinking about and studying such projects. Unsustainable represents the kind of scholarly work that some of the most recognizable names in the field have been calling for over the past five years. This book affirms that unpredictability is an indispensable factor in the field, and argues that such unpredictability presents—in fact, demands—a theoretical approach that takes these practical experiences as its base.

Edited by: Laurie J. C. Cella, Jessica Restaino
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 558g
ISBN: 9780739172568
ISBN 10: 0739172565
Series: Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 14 December 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurie Cella is associate professor and director of the First-Year Writing Program at Shippensburg University. Jessica Restaino is associate professor of English and director of First-Year Writing at Montclair State University.

Reviews for Unsustainable: Re-imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing, Service-Learning, and the University

Our current economic and social climate heightens the need for the critical scholarship featured in Unsustainable. The essays extend popular theoretical understandings of community-university dynamics through sometimes unnerving, too often familiar, narratives that recount funding debacles, student/community writer crises, ethical quandaries, and the politics of intervention. In the end, teachers, writers, and researchers are invited to find spaces for engagement, knowing that, despite inevitable challenges, community literacy theory and pedagogy represents some of the most dynamic work being done in composition, rhetoric, and literacy studies today. -- Tobi Jacobi