Teaching English in the Two-Year College May 2023

“What’s in a name?” Literacy Studies and Transdisciplinarity

Donald Penner

Abstract

This essay explores affordances and limitations of the disciplinary labels that two-year college teachers use to frame our work. Ultimately, it argues that the termliteracy studiesbest reflects the transdisciplinary work we do.

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Teaching English in the Two-Year College
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2023-05-01
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10.58680/tetyc202332586
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