Huijun yu
Professor: Liz
WRT 103
October 4, 2013
The whole passage is the
argument about GEE's opinion concerning that literacy is actually a large
political entity. From GEE's perspective, the literacy means reading and
writing within a set of large discourses which can be divided into primary
discourse and secondary discourse. The opportunities of literacy are not equal
for everybody because of different status. For the primary discourse which is
the home education, the born right of kids to obtain education is various.
Also, the secondary discourse which is learning attached to the institutes or
groups is related to the primary discourse so that it's unequal as well.
However, the author stand in
contrast that the prerequisite of GEE's viewpoint is that children cannot get
the 'overtly' education and that children born in one discourse will meet the
conflict when they acquire another discourse. In fact, this prerequisite is not
exist. The most important meaning of the existence of the teachers is to help
the children in the lower-status change their destiny.
Marge who is a girl in
lower status is a excellent example to prove everyone in any status can write
his or her own destiny in means of teachers' instruction. Fellowship gives
Marge second chance to further the education even though she has a terrible GRE
score. Through a whole year's hard works, Marge can writer better than anyone
in her classroom. The lower-status cannot resist her to make the progress. If I
want to give the cases like this one, the list will be going on. Teachers
contribute their lifetime to ensure their student to live up to their
expectations. The fact has been proved that most of the outstanding persons
succeed outside their realms of power and status and have no access to the
status institutes as well.
Of course, the pheromone
is people of color in many cases reject the literacy and also feel the literacy
reject them. However, the duty of the instructors is to try their best to
reduce the possibility for them to choose 'not learn'. Like the other
says:"Acquiring the ability to function in dominant discourse need not
mean that one must reject one's home identity and values, for discourses are
not static, but are shaped, however reluctantly, by those who participate
within them and by the form of their participation' (page 271), those
disenfranchised students can not only master the dominant discourses, but also
transform them.
From my standpoint, I
agree with the author's perspective. Everyone should have the same right to
gain the equal education and thousands of people are contributing to achieve
it. For example, in china, the country always provide plenty of money to the
poor children so that they can further their study. In another case in china, a
great deal of volunteer go to the poor place to help the students in academic
area. However, equal to every is still a dream. For a instance, our
international students who have the opportunities to study aboard, getting the
best education in the world, is related to the economic condition, confessedly.
Even though all of the students can admit into the university one day, there
are still have the gap between the rich and the poor, the white and the black.
But all of us will strive to achieve our dream days and nights.