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RESPONSE TO REFORM
COMPOSITION AND THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF TEACHING |
| By: |
Margaret J. Marshall, Robert Brooke (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£36.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0809325454 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780809325450 |
| Publisher: |
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 November, 2003 |
| Series: |
Studies in Writing and Rhetoric |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
This volume critiques the politics of labour and gender biases inherent in the composition workplace that prevent literacy teachers from attaining professional statues and respect. It calls for a reconceptualization of what it means to prepare for and enter the field of composition instruction. |
| Synopsis: |
"Response to Reform: Composition and the Professionalization of Teaching "critiques the politics of labor and gender biases inherent in the composition workplace that prevent literacy teachers from attaining professional status and respect. Scrutinizing the relationship between scholarship and teaching, Margaret J. Marshall calls for a reconceptualization of what it means to prepare for and enter the field of composition instruction.Interrogating the approach the education system takes to certify teachers without actually professionalizing their careers, Marshall contends that these programs rely on outdated rhetorics of labor that only widen the gap between teaching and other professional jobs. Such attempts to re-educate literacy teachers exploit and marginalize their work, and thus prevent them from claiming the status of academic professionals. In providing an overview of the history of and language used to literacy instruction, she also points out that while women are overrepresented in composition instruction, they are underrepresented in tenure track and administrative positions.To correct and combat these inequities, Marshall advocates an alternate alignment of power structures and rhetorical choices. In a wide-ranging survey that sheds new light on the composition workplace as well as higher education at large, "Response to Reform: Composition and the Professionalization of Teaching "boldly asks us to do away with the reductive language we inherit from the past that characterize teaching and professionalization, as well as our customary responses to public criticism of education. The result is a new articulation of composition as a meritorious profession. " |
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US |
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Southern Illinois University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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