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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791402303321

Autore

Peckham Irvin

Titolo

Going north, thinking west [[electronic resource] ] : the intersections of social class, critical thinking, and politicized writing instruction / / Irvin Peckham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-283-07809-0

9786613078094

0-87421-805-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Disciplina

808/.0420711073

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching (Higher) - Social aspects - United States

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching (Higher) - Political aspects - United States

Critical thinking - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Working class - Education (Higher) - United States

Social classes - United States

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intersections -- Social class -- Language, class, and codes -- Critical thinking -- Arguing -- Cultural studies and composition -- The teachers -- The professors -- Going west.

Sommario/riassunto

A long-time writing program administrator and well-respected iconoclast, Irvin Peckham is strongly identified with progressive ideologies in education. However, in Going North Thinking West, Peckham mounts a serious critique of what is called critical pedagogy-primarily a project of the academic left-in spite of his own sympathies there.            College composition is fundamentally a middle-class enterprise, and is conducted by middle-class professionals, while student demographics show increasing presence of the working class. In spite of best