Sunday, October 24, 2010
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Since our last formal paper assignment we have been picking apart and discussing (sometimes at length) Gee, Delpit, and Rodriguez, how they relate, what they mean. Maybe we can dig into these a little more. Gee vs. Delpit to show the differences or Gee vs. Rodriguez and show how what Rodriguez had to say supports Gee's ideas. We could take Gee's basic point about acquiring Discourses and attempt to prove or disprove his argument based on either Delpit or Rodriguez, or both if possible. I thought Molly's suggestion that we take what we have read and contemplate how we might apply it to classroom teaching. I realize this may not work since not everyone in the class is an education major. If I had my way I think we'd be doing a 4-6 page paper on the feasibility/difficulty of acquiring secondary Discourses, whether we are inside or outside of the primary Discourse.
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Hi Drew--and I think Mori and Abinader will give you even more to work with re: the themes that Gee, Delpit, and Rodriquez broach. It's good to remember, too, that not all 201 students are indeed going to become educators. I have had many pre-med and nursing students, however, as well as architecture students and other majors who have tied the course texts on literacy to their work in their respective majors/fields very interestingly in the past (for example, one student wrote about the "literacies" one would need to be an effective medical professional). I think it's good to be reminded to shape some of our paper prompts with this in mind.
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