Institutional Literacies - Stuart A. Selber

Institutional Literacies

Engaging Academic IT Contexts for Writing and Communication
Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2020
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-69934-9 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
Information technologies have become an integral part of writing and communication courses, shaping the ways students and teachers think about and do their work. But, too often, teachers and other educational stakeholders take a passive or simply reactive role in institutional approaches to technologies, and this means they are missing out on the chance to make positive changes in their departments and on campus.

Institutional Literacies argues that writing and communication teachers and program directors should collaborate more closely and engage more deeply with IT staff as technology projects are planned, implemented, and expanded. Teachers need to both analyze how their institutions approach information technologies and intervene in productive ways as active university citizens with relevant expertise. To help them do so, the book offers a three-part heuristic, reflecting the reality that academic IT units are complex and multilayered, with historical, spatial, and textual dimensions. It discusses six ways teachers can intervene in the academic IT work of their own institutions: maintaining awareness, using systems and services, mediating for audiences, participating as user advocates, working as designers, and partnering as researchers. With these strategies in hand, educators can be proactive in helping institutional IT approaches align with the professional values and practices of writing and communication programs.

Stuart A. Selber is associate professor in the Department of English at Pennsylvania State University, where he works as director of digital education and director of the Penn State Digital English Studio. His many books include Multiliteracies for a Digital Age and Solving Problems in Technical Communication, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Preface

1 Situating Academic IT

2 Historicizing Academic IT

3 Spatializing Academic IT

4 Textualizing Academic IT

5 Engaging Academic IT

References

Index
 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 5 tables, 2 line drawings
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10 0-226-69934-X / 022669934X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-69934-9 / 9780226699349
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