OPINION:The Vexation of Class

Abstract

The author explores his vexation with David Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University” in terms of its assumptions about class. He suggests that it both negates his own experience as a member of the working class and of the pedagogy he employs as a teacher of writing with middle-class students, given its insistence on mimicry of a dominant discourse that involves a betrayal of self for both working-class and middle-class learners of academic discourse.

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College English
Published
2004-11-01
DOI
10.58680/ce20044069
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  1. Literacy in Composition Studies

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