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Defying the Odds: Class and the Pursuit of Higher Literacy

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Examines why some working-class students pursue higher literacy while others don't.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments 1. Situating Literacy 2. Boundaries and Memories: Literacy Narrative as Genre 3. Identity, Class, and Higher Literacy: Theories of Literacy, Ways of Knowing 4. Metaphors We Write By 5. On the Bias: Literacies, Lived, Written, and Owned 6. Reading with Pleasure: What Oprah Can Teach Us about Literacy Works Cited Index

About the Author :
Donna Dunbar-Odom is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University at Commerce and author of Working with Ideas: Reading, Writing, and Researching Experience.

Review :
"Dunbar-Odom's overall message is an important one, encouraging educators to approach the work of students from working-class backgrounds without shaming them or making the field seem any more hostile that they may already feel it to be. Clear concern for the needs of such students permeates this work and makes it a valuable contribution to the field." - South Central Review "Because of a steadily increasing enrollment of working-class students in higher education, Dunbar-Odom's work is important to educators in terms of understanding the important and complex cultural distinctions that form the gap between the working-class majority and the middle-class academy. For those of us in the writing classroom, this book ... is timely and necessary." - Composition Studies "Defying the Odds ... will give hope to scholars in rhetoric and composition who have been laboring for decades trying to raise social class on the disciplinary radar screen." - JAC "Defying the Odds offers an insightful look at the struggles of lower-class students and encourages its readers to find ways to overcome the barriers that prevent too many of these students from achieving higher literacy." - The CEA Forum "The topic of educating working-class students is dear to my heart, and this book gave me much to think about. Dunbar-Odom offers some sobering insights about the problems of convincing working-class students of the intrinsic value of the humanities aside from job qualifications. She also challenges some of the old chestnuts such as the 'writing community' and the 'classroom community' in thought-provoking ways." - Patrick J. Finn, author of Literacy with an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791469712
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 148
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0791469719
  • Publisher Date: 21 Dec 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Class and the Pursuit of Higher Literacy
  • Width: 152 mm


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