CFP: Teaching the Other (3/26/01; MLA '01)

From: Blackmon, Samantha (SBlackmon@sla.purdue.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 11 2001 - 15:43:53 EST

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    CALL FOR PAPERS

    David Bartholomae claims that by "inventing the university" students learn
    the codes and conventions necessary to succeed. For Bartholomae, this is
    done when students learn to write from an imagined position of academic
    privilege. What happens when this privileged position can never be achieved
    by minority students (or can only be achieved at too high a cultural cost)?
    What can we as teachers to do?

    Papers proposed for this panel might look at how these issues have been
    dealt with in the past, how they are being dealt with now, and/or how they
    might be better dealt with in the future. Papers that look at the history of
    writing instruction for minority (racial, ethnic, gender, class, etc.)
    students are also welcome.

    Please send a one page abstract with a brief c.v. by March 26, 2001 via
    email to:

    Samantha Blackmon, PhD
    Assistant Professor
    Purdue University
    Department of English
    West Lafayette, IN 47907
    Email: sblackmon@sla.purdue.edu

    Please remember that all participants must be members of the MLA by 1 April
    2001 and can appear in the Program as speaker, respondent, or chair only
    twice.
                                    

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