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OverviewThis is a book about the usual teacher-student relationship in composition courses. It disrupts and rewrites the commonplace conception of the relationship by revealing the uneven ways in which power is deployed in and around the classroom. And it offers a responsible alternative. The author not only offers teachers a way of learning about power relations at their own specific sites, but also works towards a more equitable redistribution. Drawing from testimonials about teaching practice published in the journal College Composition and Communication, Helmers explores conventions in this form of writing that portray students in a negative light and show the teacher to be powerfully triumphant in his or her creative pedagogy. Several prevalent modes of representation are discussed in the book, all of which define the students as distinctly different from the teachers, in other words, as an other. The texture of the work is rich because Helmers takes an enormous amount of post-structuralist theory and recasts it in the sphere of the teacher-student relationship, itself an underexplored realm. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marguerite H. HelmersPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9780791421635ISBN 10: 0791421635 Pages: 171 Publication Date: 15 December 1994 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface by Charles I. Schuster Acknowledgments 1. Another Brick in the Wall A Brief History of Representations A History of Testimonials 2. Can't Get No Satisfaction The Tone of Testimonials The Historical Context The End Result 3. In Her Eyes You See Nothing The Concept of Deviance The Metaphor of Illness The Introduction of the Beginner 4. Unforgettable A Desire to Go Native The Creation of Orientalized Students The Construction of the Beast A Laugh at the Natives 5. Angels in the Architecture The Changing Fortunes of Testimonials The Uses of Power in Discourse Theory, Practice, and Teacher-Research The Feminization of Discourse A Woman Writing The Rhetoric of Recovery A Topoi for a Topoi Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMarguerite H. Helmers is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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