LiteracyStudies@OSU as Theory and Practice
Harvey J. Graff, Shirley Brice Heath · 2017
For LiteracyStudies@OSU (The Ohio State University), a primary location has been the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities&s; Knight House, for both practical and symbolic reasons. Developing since 2004, Literacy Studies @ OSU has been working to foster a critical, cross-campus conversation and collaborative investigation into the nature of literacy. The mission has been to bring together historical, contextual, comparative, and critical perspectives and modes of understanding, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities, education, medicine, and law. Our goal has been to stimulate new institutional and intellectual relationships between different disciplinary clusters and their constituents. Literacy Studies @ OSU has grown in scope and scale of programs and activities. Literacy Studies has become a real cross-campus presence and is recognized broadly, not only across the Ohio State main campus but also nationally and even internationally. LiteracyStudies@OSU is an experiment in university-wide interdisciplinary program development.