Mediating Discursive Worlds: When Academic Norms and Religious Belief Conflict

Heather Thomson-Bunn

doi:10.58680/ce201728894

College English Jan 2017

Mediating Discursive Worlds: When Academic Norms and Religious Belief Conflict

Heather Thomson-Bunn

Abstract

This article presents data collected from forty writing instructors in order to explore the ways in which Christian students’ discourses seem to violate certain academic norms and to argue for the intentional engagement of these discourses. Such engagement encourages a move away from entrenched “us vs. them” narratives and toward productive mediation of competing discourses. The article concludes by offering specific pedagogical strategies that instructors might use to address academic norms with devout students.

Journal: College English
Published: 2017-01-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce201728894
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Topics: writing pedagogy
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