Facing the Center: Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One Mentoring - Softcover

Denny, Harry C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874217679 ISBN 13: 9780874217674

Publisher: Utah State University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In the diversity of their clients as well as their professional and student staff, writing centers present a complicated set of relationships that inevitably affect the instruction they offer. In Facing the Center, Harry Denny unpacks the identity matrices that enrich teachable moments, and he explores the pedagogical dynamics and implications of identity within the writing center.

The face of the writing center, be it mainstream or marginal, majority or miority, orthodox or subversive, always has implications for teaching and learning. Facing the Center will extend current research in writing center theory to bring it in touch with theories now common in cultural studies curricula. Denny takes up issues of power, agency, language, and meaning, and pushes his readers to ask how they themselves, or the centers in which they work, might be perpetuating cultures that undermine inclusive, progressive education.

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Review

A much-needed introduction to identity theory for writing center directors, administrators, and consultants. Denny's voice and narrative style, and his willingness to explicate theory by writing from experience give the book a gravitas. Many teachers of writing center theory and practice courses will use Facing the Center as a required text.

Frankie Condon, University of Nebraska

Edition details

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0874217679
• ISBN 13: 9780874217674
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180