Class in the composition classroom : pedagogy and the working class /

Class in the composition classroom : pedagogy and the working class / edited by] William H. Thelin, Genesea M. Carter. - Logan : Utah State University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Pedagogy at the crossroads : intersections between instructor and student identities across institutional contexts / No homo! : toward an intersection of sexuality and masculinity for working-class men / Implications of re-defining "working class" in the urban composition classroom / California dreams : working-class writers at the California State University system / The writing space as dialectical space : disrupting the pedagogical imperative to prepare the 'underprepared' / Changing definitions of work and class in the information economy / Telling our story : 'college writing' for trade unionists / Emotional labor as imposters : working-class literacy narratives and academic identities / We're all middle class? students' interpretation of childhood ethnographies to reflect on class difference and identity / Pedagogies of interdependence : writing as advocacy / Never and forever just keep coming back again : class, access, and student writing performance / Social economies of literacy in rural Oregon : accounting for diverse sponsorship histories of working-class students in and out of school / Rethinking 'class' : poverty, pedagogy, and two-year college writing programs / Retrograde movements and the educational encounter : working-class adults in first-year composition /r James E. Romesburg -- "Being part of something gave me purpose" : how community membership impacts first-year students' sense of self / Literacy development as social practice in the lives of four working-class women / Aubrey Schiavone and Anna V. Knutson -- Robert Mundy and Harry Denny -- Aaron Barlow and Patrick Corbett -- Cassandra Dulin -- Jacqueline Preston -- Edie-Marie Roper and Mike Edwards -- Rebecca Fraser -- Nancy Mack -- Liberty Kohn -- Holly Middleton -- Missy Nieveen Phegley -- Cori Brewster -- Brett Griffiths and Christie Toth -- Genesea M. Carter -- Gail G. Verdi and Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth.

"What college writing instructors should know about working-class students--their backgrounds, experiences, identities, learning styles, and skills--in order to support them in the classroom, across campus, and beyond. Contributors explore the nuanced and complex meaning of "working class" and the values these writers bring"--Provided by publisher.



9781607326182


Working class--Education (Higher)
College students' writings.
Classroom environment.
English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching.


Electronic Books.

LC5015 / .C537 2017