Changing the Way We Teach: Writing and Resistance in the Training of Teaching Assistants

by Sally Barr Ebest and Associate Professor Sally Barr Ebest

Changing the Way We Teach: Writing and Resistance in the Training of Teaching Assistants draws on eighteen case studies to illustrate the critical role writing plays in overcoming graduate student resistance to instruction, facilitating change, and developing professional identity. Sally Barr Ebest argues that teaching assistants in English must be actively engaged in the theory and practice underlying composition pedagogy in order to better...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809326159
• ISBN13: 9780809326150
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"