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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction "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 One: Composition in the Streets The Public Turn in Composition Studies Writing in the Streets Street Life in the Writing Classrom Students in the Streets Teacher/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 Two: Word on the Streets 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 Three: Street Life in the Classroom The Pedagogical Draw of the Streets Literatures of Homelessness Asking Others as Course Preparation 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 Four: Students in the Streets Coming Clean About Service Learning Good, In Principle The Promise and Perils of Institutionalized Service Learning Too-Common Examples? A Case for Local, Tactical Community Projects One Tactical Project: Kids's 2 Cents Viewing the Community as a Source of Expertise Foregrounding Community in Project Creation and Assessment Understanding That Service/Activism Is Never Neutral Rhetorically Using Space and Time Beyond Binaries: How Can Strategic Programs Act More Tactically Five: Teachers/Writers/Scholars in the Streets Debating the Public Roles of Teachers, Writers, Scholars An Academic Horror Story From Horrors to Heroes Sandra Andrews Diana George Howard Zinn Learning from Our Heroes A Meditation on Hope Works Cited Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects.
Written communication -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects.
Report writing -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Community life.
Street life.