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This collection of essays traces the attempts of one writing teacher to understand theoretically - and to respond pedagogically - to what happens when students from diverse backgrounds learn to use language in college. Bizzell begins from the assumption that democratic education requires us to attempt to educate all students, including those whose social or ethnic backgrounds may have offered them little experience with academic discourse. Over the ten-year period chronicled in these essays, she has seen herself primarily as an advocate for such students, sometimes called "basic writers." Bizzell's views on education for "critical consciousness," widely discussed in the writing field, are represented in most of the essays in this volume. But in the last few chapters, and in the intellectual autobiography written as the introduction to the volume, she calls her previous work into question on the grounds that her self-appointment as an advocate for basic writers may have been presumptous, and her hopes for the politically liberating effects of academic discourse misplaced. She concludes by calling for a theory of discourse that acknowledges the need to argue for values and pedagogy t

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Author

Patricia Bizzell

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press, 127 Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 ($39.95 cloth--ISBN-0-8229-3730-1; $17.95 paper--ISBN-0-8229-5485-0)

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822971559

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Philosophy