Identity Matters: Schooling the Student Body in Academic Discourse - Couverture souple

Lecourt, Donna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791460568 ISBN 13 : 9780791460566

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2004

Synopsis

Identity Matters explores the question that consistently plagues composition teachers: why do their pedagogies so often fail? Donna LeCourt suggests that the answer may lie with the very identities, values, and modes of expression higher education cultivates. In a book that does precisely what it theorizes, LeCourt analyzes student-written literacy autobiographies to examine how students interact with and challenge cultural theories of identity. This analysis demonstrates that writing instruction does, indeed, matter and has a significant influence on how students imagine their potential in both academic and cultural realms. LeCourt paints not only a compelling and vexing picture of how students interact with academic discourse as both mind and body, but also offers hope for a reconceived pedagogy of social-material writing practice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Donna LeCourt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791460568
• ISBN 13: 9780791460566
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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