In this Book

Reinventing The University: Literacies and Legitimacy in the Postmodern Academy

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Christopher L. Schroeder
2001
Published by: Utah State University Press
summary

Christopher Schroeder spends almost no time disputing David Bartholomae's famous essay, but throughout ReInventing the University, he elaborates an approach to teaching composition that is at odds with the tradition that essay has come to represent.

On the other hand, his approach is also at odds with elements of the pedagogies of such theorists as Berlin, Bizzell, and Shor. Schroeder argues that, for students, postmodern instability in literacy and meaning has become a question of the legitimacy of current discourse of education. Schroeder is committed, then, to constructing literacies jointly with students and by so doing to bringing students to engage more deeply with education and society.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

pp. v

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

pp. vii

PROLOGUE: Reread(writ)ing the Contemporary Crisis in Literacy

pp. 1-31

INTERLUDE: Early Efforts to Read/Write Constructed Literacies: Journal of a Dissertation Director

pp. 32-38

1. THE CULTURAL CAPITAL OF THE ACADEMY

pp. 39-69

INTERLUDE: Read(Writ)ing Classrooms With Department Chairs

pp. 70-84

2. POSTMODERN CRITICAL LITERACIES

pp. 85-121

INTERLUDE: Read(Writ)ing Classrooms with Students I

pp. 122-125

3. CONSTRUCTED LITERACIES

pp. 126-168

INTERLUDE: Read(Writ)ing Classrooms with Students II

pp. 169-173

4. REINVENTING THE UNIVERSITY

pp. 174-221

INTERLUDE: Read(Writ)ing Constructed Literacies With Colleagues

pp. 222-232

EPILOGUE

pp. 233-241

ENDNOTES

pp. 242-253

WORKS CITED

pp. 254-264

INDEX

pp. 265-267

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

pp. 268
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