Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations?: Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers across the Curriculum

Authors

Stephen M. Fishman
Lucille McCarthy

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Abstract

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 and highly charged issues of multiculturalism, race cognizance, and social class.

Document Type

Book

Publisher

Utah State University Press

Publication Date

2002

ISBN

9780874214741

City

Logan

Comments

Available as ebook or hard copy from USU Press.

Recommended Citation

Fishman, Stephen M. and McCarthy, Lucille, "Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations?: Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers across the Curriculum" (2002). All USU Press Publications. 138.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/138