1980, ISBN: 0822937174

An assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political and technological upheavals of the past 30 years, "Fragments of Rationality" asks why composit… More...

An assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political and technological upheavals of the past 30 years, "Fragments of Rationality" asks why composition studies has been less affected by postmodern theory than other humanities and social science disciplines. For Lester Faigley, the very conservativism of composition teaching - which has resisted the challenges of postmodern thought - makes it a revealing object of study. Composition at first seemed ready to accommodate postmodern ideas, but by the late 1980s, writing teachers were beginning to question many of the traditional presumptions underlying their approach to the task. This crisis in theory has come just as the tenacious back-to-basics movement, a heightened emphasis on education for economic productivity, cuts in funding for public education, and the increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots in US society have forced teachers to consider the role of literacy instruction in reproducing social inequality. Drawing on the insights of Foucault, Lyotard and other postmodern analysts, Faigley addresses the theoretical debate about the "self" the student writer is asked to occupy, the "modernist" goal of producing a rational, coherent student subject, and the writing instructor's unconscious imposition of elite values and expectations in evaluating student work. He explores how networked computer technologies in writing classrooms are destabilising texts and subjects, and he ask creative writing and composition,education,education and reference,education theory,humanities,language arts,literary criticism,literary criticism and collections,literature,literature and fiction Schools & Teaching, University of Pittsburgh Press<

ISBN: 0822937174

Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9780822937173], University of Pittsburgh Press, Englisch, Englisch, Englisch, University of Pittsburgh Press, Book, University of Pittsburgh Press, University of … More...

Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9780822937173], University of Pittsburgh Press, Englisch, Englisch, Englisch, University of Pittsburgh Press, Book, University of Pittsburgh Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, 54490011, Rhetoric, 54476011, Words & Language, 54127011, Reference, 54071011, Subjects, 52044011, Englische Bücher, 208622031, Gebundene Ausgabe, 208621031, Format (binding_browse-bin), 366250011, Refinements, 52044011, Englische Bücher, 493113031, Englisch, 493112031, Languages, 366250011, Refinements, 52044011, Englische Bücher<

ISBN: 0822937174

Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9780822937173], University of Pittsburgh Press, Englisch, Englisch, Englisch, University of Pittsburgh Press, Book, University of Pittsburgh Press, University of … More...

Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9780822937173], University of Pittsburgh Press, Englisch, Englisch, Englisch, University of Pittsburgh Press, Book, University of Pittsburgh Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, 54490011, Rhetoric, 54476011, Words & Language, 54127011, Reference, 54071011, Subjects, 52044011, Englische Bücher, 208622031, Gebundene Ausgabe, 208621031, Format (binding_browse-bin), 366250011, Refinements, 52044011, Englische Bücher, 493113031, Englisch, 493112031, Languages, 366250011, Refinements, 52044011, Englische Bücher<

1993, ISBN: 0822937174

[EAN: 9780822937173], [PU: University of Pittsburgh Press], CTT LANGUAGE LITERARY CRITICISM, Language Arts & Disciplines|Rhetoric, 285 pp., Hardcover, vrey good *Helping and promoting glo… More...

[EAN: 9780822937173], [PU: University of Pittsburgh Press], CTT LANGUAGE LITERARY CRITICISM, Language Arts & Disciplines|Rhetoric, 285 pp., Hardcover, vrey good *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961*<