Conceptualizing Literacy: Make It Plural

I am going to write my second paper on literacy using Gee and Gere's articles along with the ideas of Myles Horton and Paulo Freire in their book We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change, some of Foucault's thoughts on materialism and education, in addition to some rich ideas from James A. Berlin's "Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class." I just wrote a longer paper on the social function of an English education historically and its contemporary importance that I got really into, so I am looking forward to translating some of the ideas generated on that topic into this paper about my own personal conceptualization of literacy and how it will inform my future career as a teacher. I do not have time to generate this draft now, though, so I will hope this basic plan is good enough and that it will be enough to have posted a plan and made good on it by the time the draft is due Tuesday evening. :) I have to type out some midterm essay response questions before my dude gets home from work because he might need to use my computer to do stuff for his classes and I want to make sure he is able to get his work done because he is a procrastinator!

My working title for this paper (I can't start writing until I have a title, my thesis is always a two or three sentence expansion of whatever my title is): "In Search of the Other Three Corners: Making Literacy Plural, Meaningful, and Personal in Collaboration with Students."

I will be utilizing/criticizing this saying by Confucius:

"The Master said: Only one who bursts with eagerness do I instruct; only one who bubbles with excitement, do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and a man cannot come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson."