Description: Retention and Resistance : Writing Instruction and Students Who Leave, Paperback by Powell, Pegeen Reichert, ISBN 0874219302, ISBN-13 9780874219302, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Retention and Resistance combines personal student narratives with a critical analysis of the current approach to retention in colleges and universities, and explores how retention can inform a revision of goals for first-year writing a vital issue for institutions, but as these students' stories show, leaving college is often the result of complex and idiosyncratic individual situations that make institutional efforts difficult and ultimately ineffective. An adjustment of institutional and pedagogical objectives is needed to refocus on educating as many students as possible, including those who might leave before of the pedagogy, curricula, and methodologies of composition studies assume students are preparing for further academic study. Retention and Resistance argues for a new kairotic pedagogy that moves toward an emphasis on the present classroom experience and takes students' varied experiences into account. Infusing the discourse of retention with three individual student voices, Powell explores the obligation of faculty to participate in designing an institution that educates all students, no matter where they are in their educational journey or how far that journey will go"--
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Book Title: Retention and Resistance : Writing Instruction and Students Who L
Number of Pages: 136 Pages
Publication Name: Retention and Resistance : Writing Instruction and Students Who Leave
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: General, Composition & Creative Writing
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Pegeen Reichert Powell
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Education
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
