Identity Matters : Schooling the Student Body in Academic Discourse /
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 th...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
SUNY Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | SUNY series in Public Policy
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18253181 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Material Conditions of Identity Politics, or How Identity Matters in Public and Academic Discourses
- Home Places
- Academic Discourse and Subject Production
- Learning My Class
- Turning Ourselves into Subjects
- The Imposter in Me
- Colonialism, Capitalism, and Composition
- Loss and Gain
- The Turn to Identity: Multiplicity and Agency within Material Relations of Power
- My Blindness
- Writing Matters
- Appendix
- Notes
- Works Cited
- index