Politics, Pedagogy, and the Profession of Composition: Confronting Commodification and the Contingencies of Power.

Horner, Bruce

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Publication Date: 2000

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Politics, Pedagogy, and the Profession of Composition: Confronting Commodification and the Contingencies of Power.

Horner, Bruce

JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, v20 n1 p121-52 Win 2000

Reviews the debate over teachers' exercise of power and authority. Argues the need to recognize the different forms in which teachers exercise power and students achieve real agency. Analyzes the means by which pedagogical work is "capitalized." (NH)

Descriptors: Higher Education, Political Influences, Postmodernism, Student Role, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments

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