Opening Spaces: Critical Pedagogy and Resistance Theory in Composition

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SUNY Press, 01.03.2001 - 126 Seiten
Calling for an empowerment of student authority and a realization of the constraints placed on critical teachers in the current educational climate, Opening Spaces proposes a new way to theorize critical work in the writing classroom recognizing the importance and materiality of student writing and employing current ideas drawn from postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and postmodern social theory.
 

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Seite 21 - the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world. (6)
Seite 20 - culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language
Seite 67 - code—a more or less accepted apologue. Now, however, the issue of ethics crops up wherever a code (mores, social contract) must be shattered in order to give way to the free play of negativity, need, desire, pleasure, and
Seite 20 - that virtually all the hostility . . . has been connected with uses involving claims to superior knowledge,.. . refinement (culchah) and distinctions between “high” art (culture) and popular art and entertainment. It thus records a real social history and a very difficult and confused phase of social and cultural development.
Seite 1 - The challenge lies in conceiving of the time of political action and understanding as opening up a space that can accept and regulate the differential structure of the moment of intervention without rushing to produce a unity of the social antagonism or contradiction. This is a sign that history is happening.
Seite 20 - culture” in English appears to date from the controversy around Arnold's views... . It is significant that virtually all the hostility . . . has been connected with uses involving claims to superior knowledge,.. . refinement (culchah) and distinctions between “high” art (culture) and popular art and entertainment.
Seite 8 - a partial and double force that is more than the mimetic but less than the symbolic. . . that turn[s] the gaze of the discriminated back upon the eye of power
Seite 89 - just-and-true-for all,” but within specific sectors, at the precise points where their own conditions of life or work situate them.
Seite 32 - acknowledge the force of writing, its metaphoricity and its rhetorical discourse, as a productive matrix which defines the “social” and makes it available as an objective

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Joe Marshall Hardin is Assistant Professor and Director of Writing at Northwestern State University.

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