Going North Thinking West: The Intersections of Social Class, Critical Thinking, and Politicized Writing Instruction

by Irvin Peckham and Dina Nayeri

A long-time writing program administrator and well-respected iconoclast, Irvin Peckham is strongly identified with progressive ideologies in education. However, in Going North Thinking West , Peckham mounts a serious critique of what is called critical pedagogy--primarily a project of the academic left--in spite of his own sympathies there. College composition is fundamentally a middle-class enterprise, and is conducted by middle-class professionals,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874218047
• ISBN13: 9780874218046
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 19 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher