Identity Matters: Schooling the Student Body in Academic Discourse (Public Policy)

LeCourt, Donna

ISBN 10: 0791460568 / ISBN 13: 9780791460566

Published by State University of New York Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Identity Matters: Schooling the Student Body in Academic Discourse (Public Policy)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791460568
• ISBN 13: 9780791460566
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Blends memoir and scholarship to provide a moving and sometimes unsettling look at how academic discourse affects the cultural values and identities that students bring into the writing classroom.

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.