| Description |
xii, 320 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-310) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Teaching working class / Sherry Lee Linkon -- Writing the personal : narrative, social class, and feminist pedagogy / Ann E. Green -- Border crossings : working-class encounters in higher education / Richard A. Greenwald and Elizabeth A. Grant -- Reversals of fortune : downward mobility and the writing of nontraditional students / Anne Aronson -- (Dis)location of culture : on the way to literacy / Joanna Brooks with Fern Cayetano -- Between dirty dishes and polished discourse : how working-class Moms construct student identities / Eileen Ferretti -- Shape of the form : working-class students and the academic essay / Linda Adler-Kassner -- What kinds of tools? Teaching critical analysis and writing to working-class students / Joseph Heathcott -- "Just American"? Reversing ethnic and class assimilation in the academy / Caroline Pari -- To know, to remember, to realize : Illinois labor works- a history workers can use / Robert Bruno and Lisa Jordon. |
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Striking close to home : students confront the 1985 Hormel strike / Colette Hyman -- Critical literacy and the organizing model of unionism : reading and writing history at a steelworkers' union hall / Kelly Belanger, Linda Strom, and John Russo -- Telling toil : issues in teaching labor literature / Laura Hapke -- Films of and for a working-class world / Tom Zaniello -- Teaching working-class literature to mixed audiences / Renny Christopher -- Class, race, and culture : teaching intercultural communication / Anthony Esposito -- Immigrant fiction, working- and middle-class white students, and multicultural empathy : a pedagogical balancing act / Charles Johanningsmeier -- Teaching the convergence of race and class in introductory Asian American studies / John Streamas -- Difficult dialogues : working-class studies in a multicultural literature classroom / Terry Easton and Jennifer Lutzenberger. |
| Subject |
Working class -- Education (Higher)
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Multicultural education.
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| Added Author |
Linkon, Sherry Lee, 1959-
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| ISBN |
1558491880 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1558491872 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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