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Product Identifiers

PublisherHeinemann

ISBN-100867094516

ISBN-139780867094510

eBay Product ID (ePID)411198

Product Key Features

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Number of Pages320 Pages

Publication NameComing to Class : Pedagogy and the Social Class of Teachers

LanguageEnglish

SubjectSocial Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, General, Teaching Methods & Materials / General

Publication Year1998

TypeStudy Guide

AuthorJohn Mcmillan

Subject AreaSocial Science, Education

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.4 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN98-030188

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromCollege Freshman

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal378.1/2/0973

Grade ToUP

Table Of ContentContents: 1. Class and Classroom, J. Daniels 2. Digging Deep, L. DeSalvo 3. 100 Friends and Other Class Issues: Teaching Both In and Out of the Game, J. Ernest 4. Truth and the Working Classroom, C. Faulkner 5. Production Values and Composition Instruction: Keeping the Hearth, Keeping the Faith, K. Fitts & A. France 6. Stupid Clown and the Spirit's Motive: Class Bias in Literary and Composition Studies, O. Frey 7. Class Conflict in the English Profession, D. Lazere 8. A Pedagogy of Respect: Teaching as an Ally of Working-Class Students, L. Mackenzie 9. Academic Life as Middle Ground: A Conversation, C. McDonald & R. McDonald 10. Seeing Different: A Reflection on Narrative, Abstraction, and Talk About Social Class, J. McMillan 11. Color and Class, C. Milanés 12. Intersections of Race and Class in the Academy, B. Moss 13. Notes from Another Underground: Working-Class Agency and the Educational Process, K. Railey 14. Living on the Border: Ethotic Conflict and the Satiric Impulse, C. Reeves 15. Rising and Converging: Race and Class in the South, H. Roskelly 16. Around the Edges of "The Renaissance": Queer Consciousness and Class Dysphoria, A. Shepard 17. Passing: A Family Dissemblance, P. Sullivan 18. Halfway Back Home, G. Tate 19. An Introduction to Social Scientific Discussion on Class, V. Villanueva 20. Class and Comfort: The Slums and the Greens, E. White 21. The Job, the Job: The Risk of Work and Uses of Text, J. Zandy

SynopsisSocial class continues to be a powerful yet invisible regulator inside American colleges and universities. While the impact of college students' own backgrounds is well-studied, too little attention has been given to the social class histories of those who teach--and even less to the ways teachers' histories affect their relationships with students, who themselves are from a variety of class cultures. This important new book offers that insight. Coming to Class presents twenty-one original essays on the relationship of pedagogical practice to instructors' social class histories. The contributors, teachers of composition as well as literature, represent every area of English studies--one of the most politically contentious sites in contemporary debates about higher education. They write about the influence of class on their teaching from a diverse set of theoretical positions, subject positions, and socioeconomic realities. One of the greatest strengths of the collection is the fact that most of the contributors are just coming to recognize the role of social class in their own pedagogical practices--in the same ways other teachers are in their classrooms. Together, their voices will further the many conversations that are vigorously underway., Social class continues to be a powerful yet invisible regulator inside American colleges and universities. While the impact of college students' own backgrounds is well-studied, too little attention has been given to the social class histories of those who teach-and even less to the ways teachers' histories affect their relationships with students, who themselves are from a variety of class cultures. This important new book offers that insight. Coming to Class presents twenty-one original essays on the relationship of pedagogical practice to instructors' social class histories. The contributors, teachers of composition as well as literature, represent every area of English studies-one of the most politically contentious sites in contemporary debates about higher education. They write about the influence of class on their teaching from a diverse set of theoretical positions, subject positions, and socioeconomic realities. One of the greatest strengths of the collection is the fact that most of the contributors are just coming to recognize the role of social class in their own pedagogical practices-in the same ways other teachers are in their classrooms. Together, their voices will further the many conversations that are vigorously underway., Coming to Class presents twenty-one original essays on the relationship of pedagogical practice to instructors' social class histories.

LC Classification NumberLB1778.2.C65 1998