Cushman,+Ellen

Cushman, Ellen.

Scholarship: //The Struggle and the Tools//: Book length study stemming from a community literacy project working with inner-city families in Troy, NY. Claims that any research into a community must be reciprocal and activist in nature. For instance, she works with the families that she studies to complete forms for housing and heat subsidies, and joins one woman on interviews when she is looking for a new apartment. The participants are helping her to understand their literacy practices, and Cushman must participate by helping the families to to enact a government-preferred literacy when they need it. "The Rhetorician as Agent of Social Change" - won the Braddock award; pretty similar to sections of her book length study.