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

• Autore: Peckham Irvin
• Pubblicazione: Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Disciplina: 808/.0420711073
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Going north, thinking west
• ISBN: 1-283-07809-0; 9786613078094; 0-87421-805-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791402303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II