Reinventing The University - Literacies and legitimacy in the postmodern academy - Softcover

Schroeder, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874214092 ISBN 13: 9780874214093

Publisher: Utah State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Christopher Schroeder spends almost no time disputing David Bartholomae's famous essay, but throughout ReInventing the University, he elaborates an approach to teaching composition that is at odds with the tradition that essay has come to represent.

On the other hand, his approach is also at odds with elements of the pedagogies of such theorists as Berlin, Bizzell, and Shor. Schroeder argues that, for students, postmodern instability in literacy and meaning has become a question of the legitimacy of current discourse of education. Schroeder is committed, then, to constructing literacies jointly with students and by so doing to bringing students to engage more deeply with education and society.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Schroeder lives, writes, and teaches in New York, where he continues to explore literacies and education in a postmodern United States. Currently, he coordinates the Writing Across the Curriculum program at the C. W. Post campus of the Long Island University where he also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, composition, linguistics, and literature. With Helen Fox, he is working on a collection of essays about alternative forms of intellectual work.

Review:

I think [his concept of] "constructed literacies" represents a positive advance over much existing work in critical pedagogy. -- Patricia Bizzell

It's all of us who are wanting to make changes in the classroom, it's all our triumphs and failures... -- Victor Villanueva

About this edition

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0874214092
• ISBN 13: 9780874214093
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276