Teaching English in the Two-Year College Sep 2022

Feature: Decoding Writing Studies: First-Generation Students, Pedagogies of Access, and Threshold Concepts

Holly Hassel ; Cassandra Phillips

Abstract

This article describes the importance of pedagogies of access for equity in literacy classrooms, especially for first-generation students, who are more likely to bring what sociologists call strategies of deference that have been shaped by differences in class culture. A threshold concepts approach can bring transparency to the values of college-level core literacy skills to help interrogate and address those differences.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2022-09-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc202232190
Open Access
Closed
Topics
threshold concepts race and writing

Citation Context

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