EDUC 118 Chapter Notes - Chapter 33: Linda Flower, Interculturalism
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33: community literacy (p. 572-587) wayne peck, The community literacy center defines community literacy as, action and reflection as literate acts that can yoke community action with intercultural education, strategic thinking and problem solving, and with observation-based research and theory building (cushman, 2001, p. 573). Western discourse on all americans (cushman, 2001, p. 574) o. Interculturalism describes literate interactions of people engaging in these boundary- crossing encounters that go beyond mere conversation to the delicate exploration of difference and conflict and toward the construction of a negotiated meaning (cushman, 2001, p. 578). o. The shift from multicultural learning to the goal of intercultural collaboration poses a new problem that asks us to go beyond the celebration of difference and the examination of conflicting assumptions and beliefs. It asks people to take rhetorical action together, across differences, to change their relationship from that of commentators on diversity to collaborators (cushman, 2001, p. 582)
