Whose Goals Whose Aspirations : Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers across the Curriculum / / Stephen M. Fishman, Lucille McCarthy.

• Author: Fishman, Stephen M.
• TeilnehmendeR: McCarthy, Lucille Parkinson, 1944-
• Place / Publishing House: Logan : : Utah State University Press,, 2002.; ©2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 an

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; THREE Conflicting Discourses: Teacher and Student Making Progress in a Racialized Space; FOUR Common Goals, Deweyan Community, and the Resolution of Freire's Teacher-Student Contradiction; 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 EducationAppendix E Triple-Entry Notetaking Assignment; References; Index; About the Authors