History of Literacy and Social Organization
Charles Bazerman Phelps 2313 x7543 bazerman@education.ucsb.edu
Student writing is situated within complex institutional, social, and intellectual arrangements which have resulted from prior elaboration of literate culture and which set the terms for our future information culture. The more deeply we look into the sociohistoric transformations which literate practices are part of, the more thoughtfully we can devise means for supporting contemporary practice.
This course will investigate the historical emergence and elaboration of literate practices and the implications for social organization and social practice in a world moving from oral to scribal to print to electronic media. This investigation will start with considering the interaction of literacy and social organization at earlier moments and will then consider some relevant theory to expose the ways text, social organization, and consciousness interact. We will then return to the rise and organization of academic, disciplinary, professional, and information culture. Each participant in the seminar will be responsible for sharing in the reading reports, writing weekly comments, preparing a portfolio of comments, and developing a project examining socio-cognitive discursive practices within a classroom, disciplinary, professional, or cyber-information domain.
Books on Order at CAMPUS STORE:
Elizabeth Eisenstein. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge UP, 1983. ISBN 0-521-27735-3
Jack Goody. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society. Cambridge UP 1986. ISBN 0-521-33962-6
Ellen Cushman, Barry Kintgen Barry Kroll and Mike Rose. Literacy. Bedford-St. Martins, 2001. ISBN 0-312-25042-8
David Olson & Nancy Torrance. The Making of Literate Societies. Blackwell, 2001
Reader at ASSOCIATED STUDENTS (near Multi-Cultural Center)
Weekly Topics and Readings
1. 9/25 Earliest Writing
ALL: Paul Saenger. "History of Reading"; Daniel Resnick & Jay Gordon "Literacy in Social History". Literacy: An International Handbook. Daniel Wagner, Richard Venesky & Brian Street, eds. Oxford: Westview 1999.
David Barton. Literacy . Blackwell, 1994. Chapters 7 & 8.
Denise Schmandt-Besserat. "The Origins of Writing." Written Communication 3:1 (1986): 31-45.
Philip Baker. "Developing Ways of Writing Vernaculars." Vernacular Literacy . Ed Tabouret Keller et al. Oxford UP, 1997. Pp. 193-141.
2. 10/2 Effects of Literacy: Inscription, Cognition, and Society
ALL: Jack Goody, "Implications of Literacy." Daniel Wagner, Richard Venesky & Brian Street, eds. Literacy: An International Handbook. Oxford: Westview 1999.
Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, in Literacy pp. 123-137.
REPORTS: Walter Ong. Jack Goody. David Olson, Hayes, Dias et al in Literacy , pp. 19-31; 32-51; 107-122; 172-198;199-208.
3. 10/9 Literacy in One Community
ALL: Niko Besnier. Literacy, Emotion, and Authority. Cambridge UP, 1995. Chap 2, 3, 8
REPORTS: Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 7
4. 10/16 The Word of God and the Word of Mammon
ALL: Jack Goody. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society , Chapters 1, & 2
REPORTS: chapters 3, 4 & 5
5. 10/23 The Printing Press and Its Consequences
ALL: Elizabeth Eisenstein. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Chap 1-4 & 8
REPORTS: chapters 5, 6, 7
Martha Woodmansee. "On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity." The Construction of Authorship . ed. Woodmansee and Jaszi. Duke University Press, 1994. pp. 15-28
Mark Rose. Authors and Owners. Harvard University Press, 1993. Chapters 1 & 2. pp. 1-30.
6. 10/30 Democracy, the Press, and the Culture of News
ALL: Michael Schudson. "Three Hundred Years of the American Newspaper." The Power of News. Harvard University Press, 1995. pp. 37-52.
James Russell Wiggins. "The Legacy of the Press in the American Revolution." The Press & the American Revolution . ed, Bernard Bailyn. American Antiquarian Society, 1980. pp. 365-372.
Greene in Literacy , pp. 234-243
7. 11/6 Literacy and Popular Culture in the U. S.
REPORTS:
E. Jennifer Monaghan. "Literacy and Gender in Colonial New England." Reading in America. ed. Cathy Davidson. pp. 53-80.
Janice Radway. "The Book of the Month Club and the General Reader." Reading in America. ed. Cathy Davidson. pp. 259-284.
Carl Kaestle. "Standardization and Diversity in American Print Culture." Literacy in the United States. Yale University Press, 1991.
Todd S. Gernes. "Recasting the Culture of Ephemera." Popular Literacy . Ed. John Trimbur. Pittsburgh UP, 2001. Pp.107-127.
Nord; McHenry & Heath: Gere; Damon-Moore and Kaestle in Literacy 244-306.
8. 11/13 Literacy and Schooling in the U.S.
REPORTS:
S. Michael Halloran. "From Rhetoric to Composition: The Teaching of Writing in America to 1900." A Short History of Writing Instruction. ed. James J. Murphy. Hermagoras Press, 1990. pp. 151-182.
Suzanne de Castell and Allan Luke. "Defining 'Literacy' in North American Schools. Perspectives on Literacy. Barry Kintgen et al, eds. Southern Illinois UP, 1988 , pp. 159-174.
Frederick Erickson. "School Literacy, Reasoning, and Civility." Perspectives on Literacy. Barry Kintgen et al, eds. Southern Illinois UP, 1988 , pp. 205-226.
Moll & Gonzalez; Graff; Purcell-Gates; Farr; McCarty and Watahomigie; Arnove and Graff in Literacy 156-171, 211-233, 402-418, 467-487; 488-508, 591-615
9. 11/20 Literacy in Social Development
ALL: Olson & Torrance, Making of Literate Societies , Chaps 1, 2, 3, 16
REPORTS: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
10. 12/3 Presentations
Education 253D Fall 2003 Thurs 9-11:50
History of Literacy and Social Organization
Paul Saenger. "History of Reading"; Daniel Resnick & Jay Gordon "Literacy in Social History". Literacy: An International Handbook. Daniel Wagner, Richard Venesky & Brian Street, eds. Oxford: Westview 1999.
Jack Goody, "Implications of Literacy" Daniel Wagner, Richard Venesky & Brian Street, eds. Literacy: An International Handbook. Oxford: Westview 1999.
David Barton. Literacy . Blackwell, 1994. Chapters 7 & 8.
Denise Schmandt-Besserat. "The Origins of Writing." Written Communication 3:1 (1986): 31-45.
Philip Baker. "Developing Ways of Writing Vernaculars." Vernacular Literacy . Ed Tabouret Keller et al. Oxford UP, 1997. Pp. 193-141.
Niko Besnier. Literacy, Emotion, and Authority. Cambridge UP, 1995. Chap 2, 3, 8
Martha Woodmansee. "On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity." The Construction of Authorship . ed. Woodmansi and Jaszi. Duke University Press, 1994. pp. 15-28
Mark Rose. Authors and Owners. Harvard University Press, 1993. Chapters 1 & 2. pp. 1-30.
Michael Schudson. "Three Hundred Years of the American Newspaper." The Power of News. Harvard University Press, 1995. pp. 37-52.
James Russell Wiggins. "The Legacy of the Press in the American Revolution." The Press & the American Revolution . ed, Bernard Bailyn. American Antiquarian Society, 1980. pp. 365-372.
E. Jennifer Monaghan. "Literacy and Gender in Colonial New England." Reading in America. ed. Cathy Davidson. pp. 53-80.
Janice Radway. "The Book of the Month Club and the General Reader." Reading in America. ed. Cathy Davidson. pp. 259-284.
Carl Kaestle. "Standardization and Diversity in American Print Culture." Literacy in the United States. Yale University Press, 1991.
Todd S. Gernes. "Recasting the Culture of Ephemera." Popular Literacy . Ed. John Trimbur. Pittsburgh UP, 2001.Pp.107-127.
S. Michael Halloran. "From Rhetoric to Composition: The Teaching of Writing in America to 1900." A Short History of Writing Instruction. ed. James J. Murphy. Hermagoras Press, 1990. pp. 151-182.
Suzanne de Castell and Allan Luke. "Defining 'Literacy' in North American Schools. Perspectives on Literacy. Barry Kintgen et al, eds. Southern Illinois UP, 1988. pp. 159-174.
Frederick Erickson. "School Literacy, Reasoning, and Civility Perspectives on Literacy. Barry Kintgen et al, eds. Southern Illinois UP, 1988. pp. 205-226.