Tactics Of Hope

by Mathieu, Paula J.

• ISBN13: 9780867095784
• ISBN10: 0867095784
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-25
• Publisher: HEINEMANN

Summary

Read Tactics of Hope and discover ideas and tactics for tapping the transformative power of learning on and from the streets.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
"We're Not Cops, We're from the University"
Universities in the Streets
A Word on the Word Street
Goals of This Book
The Streets Where I Live
On Street Papers, Gingerbread Men, and Hope
1 Composition in the Streets	1	(24)
The "Public Turn" in Composition Studies
Writing in the Streets
Street Life in the Writing Classroom
Students in the Streets
Teachers/Writers/Scholars in the Streets
Roots of the Public Turn in Composition
Spatial and Temporal Politics and the Sites of Pedagogy
On Tactics and Hope
Tactics of Hope
2 Writing in the Streets	25	(31)
Writing as Auto Insurance
Jesus Christ Froze to Death
Public Writing as Tactical
The StreetWise Writers Group
Pleasures and Perils of Streetwise Publishing
Not Your Mama's Bus Tour
Public Writing, Social Change, and the Long Vision
Assessing the Real Changes at Real Change News
Classroom Public Writing as Tactics of Hope
3 Street Life in the Classroom	56	(29)
The Pedagogical Draw of the Streets
Literatures of Homelessness
Seeking Advice from Community Experts
Framing an Issue
Who Speaks? Who Pays?
Drawing the Boundaries of the Local
Mapping the Local and Global
Projects as Tactical Writing
Evaluating a Course with a Critical View of Hope
4 Students in the Streets	85	(31)
Coming Clean About Service Learning
Service-Learning Scholarship: Good, in Principle
The Promise and Perils of Institutionalized Service Learning
Too-Common Examples?
A Case for Local, Tactical Community Projects
Beyond Binaries: How Can Strategic Programs Act More Tactically?
5 Teachers/Writers/Scholars in the Streets	116	(19)
Debating the Public Roles of Teachers, Writers, and Scholars
An Academic Horror Story
From Horrors to Heroes
Learning from Our Heroes
A Meditation on Hope
Works Cited	135	(12)
Index	147