Educating "Community Intellectuals": Rhetoric, Moral Philosophy, and Civic Engagement

Making-Do on the Margins: Organizing Resource Seeking and Rhetorical Agency in Communities During Grassroots Entrepreneurship

“…Performing ethical civic actions involves explicitly recognizing and validating the expertise of disenfranchised people living on the margins of formal institutions (Jones et al, 2016). Social justice scholars have legitimized workplace practices that were previously invisible in the field’s scholarship and pedagogy and engaged with users in inclusive ways to recognize their agency (Eble & Gaillet, 2004; Scott, 2004; Walton, 2015).…”

Disrupting the Past to Disrupt the Future: An Antenarrative of Technical Communication

“…Indeed, this was Simmons' (2007) argument, as she constructed a heuristic for public decision making. Beyond environmental studies, technical communicators have argued for the development of community-based research in a variety of contexts: medical rhetoric (Scott, 2003), community literacy (Grabill, 2001), urban planning (Grabill, 2003;Moore & Elliott, 2016), community websites (Simmons & Grabill, 2007;Simmons & Zoetewey, 2012), public policy and legislation (Hannah, 2010), and training/education (Dubinsky, 2004;Eble & Gaillet, 2004). These community-based scholarly agendas have shaped not only research but also pedagogy: for example, service-and community-learning curricula.…”

“…Conceptualized as an inclusive approach, research and pedagogy that adopt community-based methods emphasize civic and social responsibility while enacting principles of collective action such as dialogue, reflection, and advocacy as means for improving and contributing to public life (Eble & Gaillet, 2004). As Ornatowski and Bekins (2004) noted, this focus on civic and community engagement allows TPC scholars to focus on "broader democratic and human concerns in order to open up the field to civic advocacy and action and make it [the field of TPC] responsive to progressive political agendas focused on individual and collective empowerment and emancipation" (p. 252).…”

Meeting the Challenges of Globalization

“…(p. 1) Critical literacies have always been central to professional communicators' engagement in civic life in their communities and beyond (Dubinsky, 2004). In the context of globalization, these literacies involve the development of a "civic mindset" (Eble & Gaillet, 2004) that allows professional communicators to recognize, critically analyze, and negotiate ideological agendas of and power relations between global and local corporate, professional, and public interests. Critical literacies in this context thus involve understanding what power relations these ideologies and practices produce and reproduce and whom these relations privilege or marginalize.…”