Opening Spaces: Critical Pedagogy and Resistance Theory in Composition - Softcover

Hardin, Joe Marshall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791449041 ISBN 13: 9780791449042

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2001

Synopsis

Calling for an empowerment of student authority and a realization of the constraints placed on critical teachers in the current educational climate, Opening Spaces proposes a new way to theorize critical work in the writing classroom recognizing the importance and materiality of student writing and employing current ideas drawn from postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and postmodern social theory.

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Review:

"This book is an important history of the political strand of composition studies as it has developed in response to the mandate to acculturate students into academic and business cultures. Professor Hardin covers an impressive theoretical terrain; no one else has traced this history with the care and comprehensive vision nor so ably and originally reinterpreted the meaning and value of teaching for critical resistance in composition. Like the best theory in composition and rhetoric, this book should lead to better pedagogy, better teaching." -- C. Mark Hurlbert, coeditor of Composition and Resistance

Synopsis:

Hardin (writing, Northwestern State U.) calls for an empowerment of student authority and a realization of the constraints placed on critical teachers in the current educational climate. He proposes a new way to theorize critical work in the writing classroom, recognizing the importance and materiality of student writing and employing current ideas

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0791449041
• ISBN 13: 9780791449042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126