Table of Contents

Introduction
About the Contributors

  1. Emergent Critical Literacy: A Historical Perspective on Western Literate Practices (Jay L. Gordon)
  2. Developing Critical Literacy (Alice S. Horning)
  3. Critical Literacy and Large-Scale Writing Assessment: The Michigan High School Proficiency Test (Ellen H. Brinkley and Ronald A. Sudol)
  4. Service Learning and the Literacy Connection (Emily Nye and Morris Young)
  5. A Change of Course: Creating a Context for Reforming Literacy Education (Lu Huntley-Johnston and Elizabeth Ervin)
  6. When a Micro-Society Meets Its Partners: A Search for Critical Literacy Opportunities Through Service Learning Initiatives (Dan Fraizer)
  7. Student Literacy Partnerships Through Community Tutorials (Mary M. Salibrici)
  8. Community Literacy and Literature--Another Missing Theory (Anita Helle)
  9. Poetry, Community, and the Vision of Hospitality: Writing for Life in a Women's Shelter (Rosemary Winslow)
  10. Applying Critical Literacy Theory to the Experience of a Nursing Home Writing Group (Elizabeth Oates Schuster)
Author Index
Subject Index