{"product_id":"gravyland-writing-beyond-the-curriculum-in-the-city-of-brotherly-love-9780815632429","title":"Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn G\u003ci\u003eravyland, \u003c\/i\u003eParks chronicles the history of an urban university writing program and its attempt to develop politically progressive literacy partnerships with the surrounding community while having to work within and against a traditional educational and cultural landscape. He details the experience of Temple University's New City Writing program from its beginning as a small institute with one program at a local public school to a multifaceted organization, supported by large multiyear grants and establishing partnerships across the diverse neighborhoods of Philadelphia. The author describes classrooms where the community takes a seat and becomes part of the conversation--a conversation that readers of \u003ci\u003eGravyland \u003c\/i\u003eshare through the inclusion of a selection of passages produced by community writers published by New City Community Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile Parks celebrates classroom success in generating knowledge through dialogue with the larger community, he also highlights many of the obstacles the organizers of the New City Writing program faced. The author shows that writing alliances between universities and communities are possible, but they must take into account the institutional, economic, and political pressures that accompany such partnerships. Blending the theoretical and practical lessons learned, Parks elucidates New City Writing's effort to offer a new model of education, one in which the voice of the professor must share space with the voices of the community, and one in which students come to understand that the right to sit in a classroom is the result not just of nationalist war but of peaceful civil disobedience, of community struggles to gain self-recognition, and of collective efforts to seek social justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Parks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.54h x 6.60w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815632429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Parks\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eClass Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language.\u003c\/i\u003e He is also executive director of New City Community Press and editor of\u003ci\u003e Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40183736074355,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_cdacdb5f-534c-421e-9b7d-e9a3cb63ec76.jpg?v=1655559372","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/gravyland-writing-beyond-the-curriculum-in-the-city-of-brotherly-love-9780815632429","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}