Situated Stories: Valuing Diversity in Composition Research - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0867094400 ISBN 13 : 9780867094404

Editeur : Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc US, 1998

Synopsis

Situated Stories seeks to enlarge our research community by expanding on both the questions we ask and the ways we go about answering those questions. Emily Decker and Kathleen Geissler believe that writing courses are sites for mutual negotiation, places where people from all kinds of backgrounds confront the dominant institutional values. In presenting these investigations, their book calls attention to the diverse students in today's classrooms and to the pedagogical consequences of acknowledging this diversity.

The authors of these chapters introduce us to some new dimensions of composition studies. They describe the issues, challenges, and aspirations of a variety of writers; they share their struggles to define what it means to teach composition; they reflect on what it means to do research. United in their commitment to help students grow, to claim a place in the academy, to develop effective voices, all of these instructors have struggled to find the right names for things. Their articles offer new definitions of meaningful questions--and of legitimate answers--all the time helping to define what it means to truly value diversity.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Emily Decker is associate director of the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education, a public service center of The Evergreen State College where faculty and administrators collaborate across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Previously, she helped design and implement portfolio-based writing assessment for undergraduates at the University of Michigan.

Kathleen Geissler has taught writing and women's studies, composition theory, history of rhetoric, and theories of literacy and reading. Currently, she is associate professor of English at Michigan State University and associate director of the Center for Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities, where she directs an interdisciplinary, writing-intensive general education course.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc US
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0867094400
• ISBN 13: 9780867094404
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Decker Emily, Geissler Kathleen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible