CLC projects are a contact zone where two kinds of knowledge meet - where community
expertise and neighborhood savvy find a partner in the cognitive and rhetorical
research on learning and the strategies of effective writers and problem solvers.
The hallmark strategies of our community literacy projects - collaborative planning,
rivaling, story-behind-the-story, and options and outcomes - reflect this dynamic
partnership.
From our Backfiles:
Community Problem-Solving Strategies
These are sketched in Working Partners: An Urban Youth Report
Published Guides & Articles
Community Literacy: Can Writing Make a Difference? Wayne Peck, Linda Flower, & Lorraine Higgins. The Quarterly of the National Writing Project & The Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy. Spring/Summer 1994, Volume 15, Number 2-3.
Conflict in Community Collaboration. Linda Flower and Julia Deem
Getting to know you: A dialogue for community health. Higgins, L., & Chalich, T. (Eds.). Pittsburgh, PA: The Community Literacy Center and the Rainbow Health Clinic. 1996.
Problem Solving Strategies for Writing in College and Community. Linda Flower. Harcourt
Learning to Rival: A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry. Linda Flower, Elenore Long, & Lorraine Higgins
STRUGGLE: A Literate Practice Supporting Life-Project Planning. Elenore Long
Talking Across Difference: Intercultural Rhetoric and the Search for Situated Knowledge. Linda Flower
Writing for a Reason. Debra Viadero. Education Week. January 25, 1995
See the Community Literacy Center Bibliography for details about these and other publications.
Multimedia Tools That Support Problem-Analysis, Writing, Dialogue, and Personal
Planning
Teamwork: Teenagers Working Through Community Problems. Video & Teaching Guide. Pittsburgh, PA: The Community Literacy Center. 1995.
Rivaling About Risk: A Dialogue Tutorial. An interacctive HyperCard program that uses video, writing, reflection, and teen-authored texts to teach critical thinking, give voice to teen perspectives on issues of urban risk and initiate dialogue. Deems, J. & Flower, L. 1996.
What's Your Plan?: Sexuality and Relationships. A Multimedia Dialogue/Tutorial. Interactive computer support for personal planning and (on & off-line) dialogue with young women, using community literacy strategies to make (and print out) an individualized plan. (Director 7.0.2, 11.8 mg). Young, A., & Flower, L. 1996.
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