In this project, you’ll work with a partner that I have assigned. Together, you’ll choose for analysis an everyday object associated with the nature of reading, writing, and literacy—yours or that of others—or an item which reflects a cultural group with which you have a connection. This object can be a literal, physical object, or, it can be a text, a product, a process, etc.
Once you’ve chosen, you’ll work together to question, examine, and analyze this object to learn more about its nature, its attributes, its social and cultural meanings, and ultimately, what it reveals about the larger cultural values and practices which create and surround it.
Think for example: why, in contemporary Western tradition, do men carry wallets instead of purses?
This was not always the case throughout history, and is not true throughout the world today, yet in America, this is now the norm. Why? What connects wallets with men and manhood? What about their use and value? What does the use of a wallet tell us about the people who use them, and the culture which expects them?
You’ll take that sort of thinking and apply it to an object of your choice. I’m sure you can think of dozens of artifacts—objects—which are associated with learning and literacy. Pick one, and then show how that artifact illustrates the values of the people who use it, the culture that produces it
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