Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education

by Bronwyn T. Williams

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How do definitions of literacy in the academy, and the pedagogies that reinforce such definitions, influence and shape our identities as teachers, scholars, and students? The contributors gathered here reflect on those moments when the dominant cultural and institutional definitions of our identities conflict with our other identities, shaped by class, race, gender, sexual orientation, location, or other cultural factors. These writers explore the struggle, identify the sources of conflict, show more and discuss how they respond personally to such tensions in their scholarship, teaching, show less

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Bronwyn T. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of the University of Louisville. He teaches and writes about issues of literacy, popular culture, cross-cultural communication, and pedagogy

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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
808.042Literature & rhetoricLiterature, rhetoric & criticismRhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literaturesRhetoric and anthologiesHandbooks for writersEnglish
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LC151 .I34EducationSpecial aspects of educationSpecial aspects of educationSocial aspects of educationLiteracy. Illiteracy
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