Critical Process Writing

<p>Our wildly diverse country contains multitudes-wanderers and drifters exiles and refugees boundary defenders and border-crossers nomads and immigrants Underground Railroaders and long-haul riders free-thinkers and rule-followers. No single story can say it all for we are people who speak with many tongues and who refuse to stand still-we're on the move on the run and in the mix our collective experiences united<em> in motion</em>. <strong><em>Critical Process Writing</em></strong> begins here for Brett Blake understands that no one is literally voiceless although too many (massively and tragically in American schools) are savagely silenced or heartlessly unheard. Dr. Blake illuminates a sturdy antidote-literacy practices that are collaborative social and critical geared toward co-creating (teacher and student together) a relationship that reveals a wide universe of meaning-making. The result: the poetry of the everyday the literature of the street and an authentic encounter in which a teacher listening with empathy and identification and a student seizing an occasion to perform an account of events and experiences become both more literate and more powerful and intentional in their projects and their pursuits. <strong><em>Critical Process Writing</em></strong> is an indispensable book. </p><p>~~~Bill Ayers <span style=color: rgb(77 81 86);>University of Illinois at Chicago</span></p>