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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213817203321

Autore

Fishman Stephen M

Titolo

Whose Goals Whose Aspirations : Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers across the Curriculum / / Stephen M. Fishman, Lucille McCarthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan : , : Utah State University Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-283-26698-9

9786613266989

0-87421-474-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McCarthyLucille Parkinson <1944->

Disciplina

808/.0071/1073

808.00711073

Soggetti

Education - Aims and objectives

Remedial teaching - United States

Language and culture - United States

Multicultural education - United States

Minorities - Education (Higher) - United States

Interdisciplinary approach in education - United States

Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE Introduction: A Kaleidoscope of Conflict; TWO An ESL Writer and Her Discipline-based Professor: Making Progress Even When Goals Don't Match; THREE Conflicting Discourses: Teacher and Student Making Progress in a Racialized Space; FOUR Common Goals, Deweyan Community, and the Resolution of Freire's Teacher-Student Contradiction; FIVE Conclusion: Sorting Conflict, Weaving Hope; Notes; Appendix A Research Methods; Appendix B Writing Assignments in Introduction to Philosophy; Appendix C Class Reflection Log (CRL) Questions

Appendix D Writing Assignments in Philosophy of EducationAppendix E



Triple-Entry Notetaking Assignment; References; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Ever since Horace Mann promoted state supported schooling in the  1850s, the aims of U.S. public education have been the subject of heated  national debate. Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations? joins this  debate by exploring clashing educational aims in a discipline-based  university classroom and the consequences of these clashes for  ""underprepared"" writers.In this close-up look at a White middle-class teacher and his  ethnically diverse students, Fishman and McCarthy examine not only the  role of Standard English in college writing instruction but also the  underlying an