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Author Hesford, Wendy S

Title Framing identities : autobiography and the politics of pedagogy / Wendy S. Hesford
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxxviii, 207 pages) : illustrations
Contents PREFACE: Frames within Frames; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Autobiography and the Politics of Identity on Campus; 1. MEMORY WORK; 2. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FEMINIST WRITING PEDAGOGY; 3. WRITING IDENTITIES: The "Essence" of Difference; 4. "YE ARE WITNESSES": Autobiography and Commemorative Practices; 5. THE RISKS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Identity Politics, Sexual-Offense Policies, and the Rhetoric of Rights; 6. IN AND OUT OF THE FLESH: Autobiography, Public-Art Activism, and the Crisis of Witnessing; CONCLUSION. Traveling Frames: Authority, Authenticity, and the Pedagogy of Location; NOTES
Summary How do historically marginalized groups expose the partiality and presumptions of educational institutions through autobiographical acts? How are the stories we tell used to justify resistance to change or institutional complacency? These are the questions Wendy S. Hesford asks as she considers the uses of autobiography in educational settings
Analysis Critical pedagogy -- United States
Education -- United States -- Biographical methods
Multiculturalism -- United States
Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States
Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States
Ethnicity -- United States
Oberlin College -- Students
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Oberlin College -- Students
SUBJECT Oberlin College fast
University of South Alabama gnd
Subject Critical pedagogy -- United States
Education -- United States -- Biographical methods
Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States
Ethnicity -- United States
Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States
Multiculturalism -- United States
EDUCATION -- Aims & Objectives.
Critical pedagogy
Education -- Biographical methods
Education, Higher -- Political aspects
Ethnicity
Minorities -- Education (Higher)
Multiculturalism
Students
Ausländischer Student
Autobiografie
Feminismus
Identität
Pädagogik
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98045127
ISBN 9780816689163
0816689164