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Literacy Studies Working Group and
Literacy Studies at OSU present a conversation with
Mike Rose
Tuesday, May 17 3:30-5:00
Hopkins Hall 262
Rose will discuss The Mind at Work:
The Intelligence of American Workers (Viking, 2004).
The introduction and afterword are available online.
Reception immediately following at the
George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue
Space is limited. Please let us know if you will attend at
lantz.38@osu.edu or 688-0265.
Mike Rose is the award-winning author of Possible Lives:
The Promise of Public Education in America (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) and
Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared (Free Press, 1989). The Grawemeyer Award in Education and a Guggenheim Fellowship are among his many honors. Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, at UCLA, his major interests include rhetoric, literacy, and instruction; schools and society; cognition and work; and educational policy.
Mike Rose's visit is sponsored by the Literacy Studies Working Group of the Institute for Collaborative and Public Humanities, with additional support from the College of Humanities, the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, and the Department of English.
The Literacy Studies Working Group is fostering a critical, cross-campus conversation and investigation into the nature of literacy, bringing historical, contextual, comparative, and critical perspectives and modes of understanding together to stimulate new institutional and intellectual relationships. The Group aims to promote collaboration among different disciplinary clusters and their constituents, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities, medicine, and law.
If you would like your name added to the LSWG listserv, contact Susan Hanson at hanson.94@osu.edu.
