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UNINA9910791402303321 |
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Autore |
Peckham Irvin |
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Titolo |
Going north, thinking west [[electronic resource] ] : the intersections of social class, critical thinking, and politicized writing instruction / / Irvin Peckham |
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Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-07809-0 |
9786613078094 |
0-87421-805-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (186 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intersections -- Social class -- Language, class, and codes -- Critical thinking -- Arguing -- Cultural studies and composition -- The teachers -- The professors -- Going west. |
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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 |
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