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ERIC Number: EJ385194
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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On the Subjects of Class and Gender in "The Literacy Letters."
Brodkey, Linda
College English, v51 n2 p125-41 Feb 1989
Discusses how discourses construct teaching, by examining "the Literacy Letters," a correspondence between pairs of middle-class teachers and working-class women enrolled in an adult basic education course. Challenges the ideology that class, race, and gender differences, while present in American society, are absent from American classrooms. (SR)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Adult Basic Education, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, English Instruction, Language Research, Language Role, Postsecondary Education, Sex Differences, Social Class, Social Differences, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Response, Writing Research
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Reader Writer Relationship