Literacy, Ideology, and Dialogue by Irene Ward

Literacy, Ideology, and Dialogue by Irene Ward

This is the first scholarly examination of the use of dialogic theory and pedagogy by scholars and teachers of writing. Dialogic methods have become extremely important to many different approaches to pedagogy. However, no one has yet noted that such pedagogies are being espoused by scholars and teachers who have vastly differing theoretical and ideological orientations from one another. Given the fact that the same kind of pedagogy is being proposed by people from such widely differing perspectives, it is time for a substantial reassessment of the use of dialogic pedagogies in literacy education. Ward's critique of the "democratic" dialogue that expressivists, social constructionists, radical pedagogists, and poststructuralists profess should be read by all compositionists employing collaborative learning in their classrooms. Ward's pedagogy acknowledges and makes room for the differences among students that feminist and social constructionist pedagogies often ignore; it takes into account that social relationships outside the composition classroom can affect the relationships of students within it.

Irene Ward is in the English Department at Kansas State University, Manhattan.

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ISBN 13	9780791421987
ISBN 10	0791421988
Title	Literacy, Ideology, and Dialogue
Author	Irene Ward
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	1994-08-30
Number of pages	242
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