Identity Matters : Schooling the Student Body in Academic Discourse
LeCourt, Donna
ISBN 10: 0791460568 ISBN 13: 9780791460566
Published by State University of New York Press, 2004
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Identity Matters explores the question that consistently plagues composition teachers: why do their pedagogies so often fail? Donna LeCourt suggests that the answer may lie with the very identities, values, and modes of expression higher education cultivates. In a book that does precisely what it theorizes, LeCourt analyzes student-written literacy autobiographies to examine how students interact with and challenge cultural theories of identity. This analysis demonstrates that writing instruction does, indeed, matter and has a significant influence on how students imagine their potential in both academic and cultural realms. LeCourt paints not only a compelling and vexing picture of how students interact with academic discourse as both mind and body, but also offers hope for a reconceived pedagogy of social-material writing practice.
About the Author: Donna LeCourt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Title: Identity Matters : Schooling the Student ...
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good