Coming to Class Pedagogy and the Social Class of Teachers

Name: Coming to Class Pedagogy and the Social Class of Teachers
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ISBN: 9780867094510

ISBN-10: 0867094516

ISBN-13: 9780867094510

Edition: 1998

Authors: John McMillan, Alan Shepard, Gary Tate

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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 teachand 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 studiesone of the…

Book details

List price: $52.80
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 8/26/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Gary Tate is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at TCU, where he teaches courses in working-class literature, composition theory, and writing.



Class and Classroom



Digging Deep



100 Friends and Other Class Issues: Teaching Both In and Out of the Game



Truth and the Working Classroom



Production Values and Composition Instruction: Keeping the Hearth, Keeping the Faith



Stupid Clown and the Spirit's Motive: Class Bias in Literary and Composition Studies



Class Conflict in the English Profession



A Pedagogy of Respect: Teaching as an Ally of Working-Class Students



Academic Life as Middle Ground: A Conversation



Seeing Different: A Reflection on Narrative, Abstraction, and Talk About Social Class



Color and Class



Intersections of Race and Class in the Academy



Notes from Another Underground: Working-Class Agency and the Educational Process



Living on the Border: Ethotic Conflict and the Satiric Impulse



Rising and Converging: Race and Class in the South



Around the Edges of "The Renaissance": Queer Consciousness and Class Dysphoria



Passing: A Family Dissemblance



Halfway Back Home



An Introduction to Social Scientific Discussion on Class



Class and Comfort: The Slums and the Greens



The Job, the Job: The Risk of Work and Uses of Text