Teachers, Discourses, and Authority in the Postmodern Composition Classroom - Couverture souple

Gale, Xin Liu

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791427668 ISBN 13 : 9780791427668

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1996

Synopsis

Examines the teacher's role and the teacher's authority in postmodern academic settings.

This book is a sophisticated analysis of the teacher's role and authority in postmodern academic settings. Xin Liu Gale argues that the teacher's authority is inevitable and indispensable in effective teaching, and that, furthermore, it is necessary for "symbolic imposition." The author insists that teachers and scholars should explore how the teacher's authority functions in the pedagogic context and how it can help students develop critical literacy.

Influenced by the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Claude Passeron, Paulo Freire, Richard Rorty, and various poststructuralist theorists, Gale investigates the complex relationships among the teacher's and the institution's authority, the teacher's discourse(s) and social and pedagogic roles, and students' discourse(s) and diverse backgrounds. She then proposes a two-level interactional model of teaching that is based on a new discourse relationship characterized by the "edifying" role of the teacher.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Xin Liu Gale is Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791427668
• ISBN 13: 9780791427668
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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