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Reinventing the university : literacies and legitimacy in the postmodern academy / Christopher L. Schroeder.
LIBRA LB2361.5 .S38 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schroeder, Christopher L., 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Curricula--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Curricula.
- Student participation in curriculum planning.
- United States.
- Postmodernism and education--United States.
- Postmodernism and education.
- Student participation in curriculum planning--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 267 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Logan : Utah State University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Christopher Schroeder spends almost no time disputing Bartholomae's famous essay, but throughout ReInventing the University, he elaborates an approach to teaching composition that is at odds with the tradition that essay has come to represent.
- On the other hand, his approach is also at odds with elements of the pedagogies of such theorists as Berlin, Bizzell, and Shor. Schroeder argues that, for students, postmodern instability in literacy and meaning has become a question of the legitimacy of current discourse of education. Schroeder is committed, then, to constructing literacies jointly with students, and by so doing to bring students to engage more deeply with education and society.
- This does not mean he abandons traditional discourse or traditional practice in the classroom; rather, tradition becomes only one voice among many, instead of the dominating one. ReInventing the University is an extended discussion of why Schroeder feels this is necessary, how he tries to construct literacies that have legitimacy with students, and what his experiences could mean for classrooms, departments, and disciplines.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Reread(writ)ing the Contemporary Crisis in Literacy 1
- Interlude: Early Efforts to Read/Write Constructed Literacies 32
- 1 The Cultural Capital of the Academy 39
- Interlude: Read(Writ)ing Classrooms with Department Chairs 70
- 2 Postmodern Critical Literacies 85
- Interlude: Read(Writ)ing Classrooms with Students I 122
- 3 Constructed Literacies 126
- Interlude: Read(Writ)ing Classrooms with Students II 169
- 4 ReInventing the University 174
- Interlude: Read(Writ)ing Constructed Literacies with Colleagues 222.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [254]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874214092
- OCLC:
- 45603909
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