Facing the Center
Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One Mentoring
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Higher Education, Language Arts, Writing & Publishing, Composition & Creative Writing
| Author: | Harry C. Denny | ISBN: | 9780874217681 |
| Publisher: | Utah State University Press | Publication: | March 15, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Utah State University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Harry C. Denny |
| ISBN: | 9780874217681 |
| Publisher: | Utah State University Press |
| Publication: | March 15, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Utah State University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
