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Author LeCourt, Donna, 1963-

Title Identity matters : schooling the student body in academic discourse / Donna LeCourt
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 245 pages)
Contents Identity matters -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Material Conditions of Identity Politics, or How Identity Matters in Public and Academic Discourses -- interchapter one: Home Places -- 2. Academic Discourse and Subject Production: Toward a Technology of Power -- interchapter two: Learning My Class -- 3. Turning Ourselves into Subjects: Identification, Power, and Desire -- interchapter three : The Imposter in Me -- 4. Colonialism, Capitalism, and Composition: Structural Limitations on Composing Identities -- interchapter four : Loss and Gain
5. The Turn to Identity: Multiplicity and Agency within Material Relations of Power -- interchapter .ve : My Blindness -- 6. Writing Matters: Revitalizing Agency -- Appendix -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- chapter two -- chapter four -- chapter five -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Summary Annotation "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 theoreizes, 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index
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Subject Critical pedagogy -- United States
Multicultural education -- United States
English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Social aspects -- United States
Education -- Biographical methods.
EDUCATION -- Aims & Objectives.
Critical pedagogy
Education -- Biographical methods
English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Social aspects
Multicultural education
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1423739213
9781423739210
079146055X
9780791460559
0791460568
9780791460566
9780791485279
0791485277