Facing the center
Subtitle: toward an identity politics of one-to-one mentoring
By: Harry C. Denny
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Logan, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780874217674; 9780874217681
Description: In the diversity of their clients as well as their professional and student staff, writing centers present a complicated set of relationships that inevitably affect the instruction they offer. In Facing the Center, Harry Denny unpacks the identity matrices that enrich teachable moments, and he explores the pedagogical dynamics and implications of identity within the writing center. The face of the writing center, be it mainstream or marginal, majority or minority, orthodox or subversive, always has implications for teaching and learning. Facing the Center will extend current research in writing center theory to bring it in touch with theories now common in cultural studies curricula. Denny takes up issues of power, agency, language, and meaning, and pushes his readers to ask how they themselves, or the centers in which they work, might be perpetuating cultures that undermine inclusive, progressive education. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Identity politics, face, and the pedagogy of one-to-one mentoring of writing; title: Facing race & ethnicity in the writing center; title: Facing class in the writing center; title: Facing sex & gender in the writing center; title: Facing nationality in the writing center; title: Facing the center redux.