The Social Uses of Writing: Politics and Pedagogy

by Thomas Fox

This volume explores how a political and social theory of writing can inform pedagogy, including an analysis of how students' educational histories limit teacher and student roles, and how we might work to enlarge both. Through a critique of ethnography and an exploration of Friere's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the author develops an interactive theory of teaching writing. In three central chapters, the volume treats gender, class and race issues in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893916013
• ISBN13: 9780893916015
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"