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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
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 |
|