Facing the center : toward an identity politics of one-to-one mentoring / Harry C. Denny.
Material type: TextPublication details: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (x, 176 pages)Content type:- text
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- English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
- Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Writing centers -- Political aspects
- Mentoring
- Multicultural education
- Literature
- Language and languages
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric
- REFERENCE -- Writing Skills
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing
- EDUCATION -- Higher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identity politics, face, and the pedagogy of one-to-one mentoring of writing -- Facing race & ethnicity in the writing center -- Facing class in the writing center -- Facing sex & gender in the writing center -- Facing nationality in the writing center -- Facing the center redux.
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 writin.
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