[NIFL-POVRACELIT:332] talking about purpose, philosopy and policy

From: Kathy Sikes (ksikes@email.unc.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 22 2000 - 12:28:33 EST


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Hello to everyone on this list!  I am posting a message on behalf of the
staff at the Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE).
 We are a national organization supporting the participatory education
and social change work of campus-based literacy programs.  An article we
enjoyed reading, one that connects political philosophy and education
policy, is Patrick Shannon's "'What's My Name?': A Politics of Literacy
in the Latter Half of the 20th Century in America." published in Reading
Research Quarterly, Jan-Mar 2000, Vol.35, Issue1, p90.  

Shannon challenges us to "begin asking ourselves how these ideologies
have influenced us, which elements we value and which we no longer
value, and what other possibilities are available to us." Would that
question be an interesting place to renew our discussion about the
philosophical purposes of education and parallel policy implications?

Best,

Kathy





Kathy Sikes, Executive Director
Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education
ph:919.962.1542  fax: 919.962.6020



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