Going North Thinking West: The Intersections Of Social Class, Critical Thinking, And Politicized Writing Instruction,Used

Going North Thinking West: The Intersections Of Social Class, Critical Thinking, And Politicized Writing Instruction,Used

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A longtime writing program administrator and wellrespected iconoclast, Irvin Peckham is strongly identified with progressive ideologies in education. However, in Going North Thinking West, Peckham mounts a serious critique of what is called critical pedagogyprimarily a project of the academic leftin spite of his own sympathies there.College composition is fundamentally a middleclass enterprise, and is conducted by middleclass professionals, while student demographics show increasing presence of the working class. In spite of best intentions to ameliorate inequitable social class relationships, says Peckham, critical pedagogies can actually contribute to reproducing those relationships in traditional formsnot only perpetuating social inequities, but pushing working class students toward selfalienation, as well.Peckham argues for more clarity on the history of critical thinking, social class structures and teacher identity (especially as these are theorized by Pierre Bourdieu), while he undertakes a critical inquiry of the teaching practices with which even he identifies.Going North Thinking West focuses especially on writing teachers who claim a necessary linkage between critical thinking and writing skills; these would include both teachers who promote the fairly apolitical position that argumentation is the obvious and necessary form of academic discourse, and more controversial teachers who advocate turning a classroom into a productive site of social transformation.Ultimately, Peckham argues for a rereading of Freire (an icon of transformational pedagogy), and for a collaborative investigation of students worlds as the first step in a successful writing pedagogy. It is an argument for a pedagogy based on service to students rather than on transforming them.

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