A Celestial Omnibus by Jp Maney

A Celestial Omnibus by Jp Maney

Retention and Resistance combines personal student narratives with a critical analysis of the current approach to retention in colleges and universities, and explores how retention can inform a revision of goals for first-year writing teachers.

Retention is a vital issue for institutions, but as these students' stories show, leaving college is often the result of complex and idiosyncratic individual situations that make institutional efforts difficult and ultimately ineffective. An adjustment of institutional and pedagogical objectives is needed to refocus on educating as many students as possible, including those who might leave before graduation.

Much of the pedagogy, curricula, and methodologies of composition studies assume students are preparing for further academic study. Retention and Resistance argues for a new kairotic pedagogy that moves toward an emphasis on the present classroom experience and takes students' varied experiences into account. Infusing the discourse of retention with three individual student voices, Powell explores the obligation of faculty to participate in designing an institution that educates all students, no matter where they are in their educational journey or how far that journey will go.

J. P. Maney has taught English at the University of Utah and at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Tom Hazuka is associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. Both accomplished writers of fiction, Maney and Hazuka's editorial credits include several other fiction anthologies, notably Flash Fiction, Sudden Fiction, Sudden Fiction International, and The Best of the West.

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ISBN 13	9780807083352
ISBN 10	0807083356
Titel	A Celestial Omnibus
Autor	J P Maney
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Beacon Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1998-09-01
Seitenanzahl	352
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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