Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times

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Price
$57.50
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publish Date
Pages
232
Dimensions
6.0 X 8.9 X 0.7 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780822962892
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About the Author
Amy J. Wan is assistant professor of English and codirector of the first year writing program at Queens College, City University of New York.
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A fitting reminder of the ways higher education has served as a training ground for particular kinds of literacy and citizenship. Using archival research from various literacy training sites, Wan shows that historically, literacy has served as a tool to shape citizenship in response to societal shifts, and by treating the actualization of citizenship as the responsibility of the individual, literacy training risks reinforcing rather than mitigating existing legal, economic, and cultural exclusions.-- "Bruce Horner, University of Louisville"
A first-rate work. The topic is timely and Amy J. Wan makes a genuine contribution to composition and writing studies by complicating ideas of citizenship that are floating around the field (the 'ambient awareness' that she notes). Wan has a big and important set of questions that motivates the specificity of her empirical studies.-- "John Trimbur, Emerson College"