Through collaborative activities, discussions, and reflections, the Writing Center provides tutors with continuing education in linguistic history and diversity to better serve the writers with whom we work.
Linguistic Justice & Diversity Training Program Mission Statement
Because literacy practices and literacy learning are products of a culture’s history and values—and a force for shaping a culture’s future—writing is unavoidably and necessarily a site of ideological production. People with power and influence to shape what matters in social contexts have historically decided how we write, what we write, and how we judge writing.
Following the Writing Center’s acknowledgement of “writing as a powerful and ubiquitous modality of and for learning” and DePaul University’s commitment to education for “diverse cultural and ethnic groups,” the Linguistic Justice and Diversity Training program aims to continue tutor education regarding diverse linguistic traditions within and beyond the DePaul community.
The Linguistic Justice and Diversity Training program is one way we enact DePaul’s mission to ennoble “the God-given dignity of each person” by researching, recognizing, and legitimizing linguistic traditions beyond what is putatively called by many “Standard English.”
