Social Utility and Needs-Based Education: Writing Instruction at the Early Junior College

Teaching English in the Two-Year College Dec 2000

Social Utility and Needs-Based Education: Writing Instruction at the Early Junior College

William DeGenaro

Abstract

Notes how early junior college compositionists sought to socialize a largely working-class student body into a middle-class sensibility. Argues that educators must make time to create historical narratives of two-year colleges as a valuable precursor to fighting for institutional reforms within institutions. Analyzes the manner that curriculum builders in the 1920s and 1930s constructed first-year writing courses at junior colleges.

Journal: Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published: 2000-12-01
DOI: 10.58680/tetyc20001936
Open Access: Closed
Topics: first-year composition writing pedagogy two-year college

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