Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness

Sharing a discourse,
Hirsch: means not only sharing a tongue but also sharing amass of contextual knowledge that renders the tongue significant. In its broadest outlines, this in the definition of "literacy". That is identified as "cultural". That is, the ability to read, write and speak -to use languane- is contingent upon possession - of the cultural knowledge that renders the language significant, that is identified as "cultural", shape situation for its appropiate use, and so on. There is, in fact, no such thing as simple literacy at all according to these assumptions; every form of literacy is a particular cultural literacy.




Transdisciplinary academic vocabulary
Composition study, how much od the cultural content should be supplied by the teacher from the traditional academic store and how much should come from students' knowledge, of the treasure of other, nonacademic cultural literacies.


Discourse community, knowledge sharing


Concensus, dealing with diversity


Human don't make truth, they discover it.




The foolishness of pretending that one can be a traditional philosopher with access to the transcendent truth of timeless texts.






the need of authority