BookCommentary 3O How this book calls English teachers to consider their several social roles. Worries about the N e w Literacies Dale Sullivan Humanities Department Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931 dsulliva@mtu.edu Expanding Literacies: English Teaching and the New Workplace (1998), edited by Mary Sue Garay and Stephen Bernhardt, challenges high school and college English teachers to widen the definition of literacy to include workplace literacy. Perhaps this book falls within the circle marked out by Robert Scholes when he said, "the exclusivity of literature as a category must be discarded. All kinds of texts, visual as well as verbal, polemical as well as seductive, must be taken as the occasions for further textuality" (1985, p. 16), or perhaps it stretches the circle to embrace even the most mundane. Some might argue that it actually constricts literacy because it challenges teachers to expend energy on texts that do not merit our attention, thereby pirating time that could be better spent in other ways. I think it is in the context of these questions that the real debate about the value of this book will eventually reside, and because it raises these questions, I believe it is an important
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Worries about the new literacies
Sullivan, Dale
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, Volume 23 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 1999
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