Whose Goals Whose Aspirations: Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers across the Curriculum

by Stephen Fishman

Overview

Ever since Horace Mann promoted state supported schooling in the 1850s, the aims of U.S. public education have been the subject of heated national debate. Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations? joins this debate by exploring clashing educational aims in a discipline-based university classroom and the consequences of these clashes for "underprepared" writers.

In this close-up look at a White middle-class teacher and his ethnically diverse students, Fishman and McCarthy examine not only the role of Standard English in college writing instruction but also the underlying and highly charged issues of multiculturalism, race cognizance, and social class.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874214741
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	570 KB

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ONE Introduction: A Kaleidoscope of Conflict TWO An ESL Writer and Her Discipline-based Professor: Making Progress Even When Goals Don’t Match Part One A Discipline-based Professor’s Overall Classroom Goal: Exploring Cultural Knowledge Part Two Student-Teacher Relations: a Mismatch of Goals and Expectations Conclusion Coda The Researchers Continue to Converse THREE Conflicting Discourses: Teacher and Student Making Progress in a Racialized Space Part One An Early-Semester Homework Paper: White Teacher, Black Student, and Their Conflicting Discourses Part Two Instructional Supports That Helped: Class Discussions, Ungraded Writing, and Audiotaped Teacher Responses to Essay Drafts Conclusion Coda The Researchers Continue to Converse FOUR Common Goals, Deweyan Community, and the Resolution of Freire’s Teacher–Student Contradiction Part One Linking Dewey’s Community and Freire’s Liberatory Classroom Part Two Dewey’s Communal Ideals as Applied to Teacher–Student Relations Residue Coda The Researchers Continue to Converse FIVE Conclusion: Sorting Conflict, Weaving Hope Notes Appendix A Research Methods Appendix B Writing Assignments in Introduction to Philosophy Appendix C Class Reflection Log (CRL) Questions Appendix D Writing Assignments in Philosophy of Education Appendix E Triple-Entry Notetaking Assignment References Index About the Authors