Pedagogy Apr 2012

The Performed Self in College Writing

Sheldon George

Abstract

This article describes how contemporary psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theories inform my teaching of writing. It suggests that the psychological and academic challenges confronting freshmen recently placed in a new social/academic environment may be abated by a pedagogy that highlights a poststructuralist understanding of identity as multiple and performative.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2012-04-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-1503613
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first-year composition writing pedagogy teacher development
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  1. Findlay (2019)
    When Writers Aren’t Authors: A Qualitative Study of Unattributed Writers
    College English

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