Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations?

by Fishman, Stephen M.; McCarthy, Lucille Parkinson

• ISBN13: 9780874214475
• ISBN10: 0874214475
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

Ever since Horace Mann promoted state supported schooling in the 1850s, the aims of U.S. public education have been the subject of heated national debate. Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations?joins this debate by exploring clashing educational aims in a discipline-based university classroom and the consequences of these clashes for "underprepared" writers. In this close-up look at a White middle-class teacher and his ethnically diverse students, Fishman and McCarthy examine not only the role of Standard English in college writing instruction but also the underlying and highly charged issues of multiculturalism, race cognizance, and social class.

Author Biography

Lucille McCarthy teaches composition and literature at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Kaleidoscope of Conflict	1	(16)
An ESL Writer and Her Discipline-based Professor: Making Progress Even When Goals Don't Match	17	(48)
A Discipline-based Professor's Overall Classroom Goal---Exploring Cultural Knowledge	19	(14)
Steve Fishman
Student-Teacher Relations---A Mismatch of Goals and Expectations	33	(26)
Lucille McCarthy
Conclusion	59	(1)
Steve Fishman
Lucille McCarthy
Coda: The Researchers Continue to Converse	60	(5)
Steve Fishman
Lucille McCarthy
Conflicting Discourses: Teacher and Student Making Progress in a Racialized Space	65	(51)
An Early-Semester Homework Paper---White Teacher, Black Student, and Their Conflicting Discourses	72	(11)
Steve Fishman
Instructional Supports that Helped---Class Discussions, Ungraded Writing, and Audiotaped Teacher Responses to Essay Drafts	83	(25)
Lucille McCarthy
Conclusion	108	(2)
Steve Fishman
Lucille McCarthy
Coda: The Researchers Continue to Converse	110	(6)
Steve Fishman
Lucille McCarthy
Common Goals, Deweyan Community, and the Resolution of Freire's Teacher-Student Contradiction	116	(53)
Linking Dewey's Community and Freire's Liberatory Classroom	118	(10)
Steve Fishman
Dewey's Communal Ideals as Applied to Teacher-Student Relations	128	(24)
Steve Fishman
Lucille McCarthy
Residue	152	(11)
Steve Fishman
Lucille McCarthy
Coda: The Researchers Continue to Converse	163	(6)
Steve Fishman
Lucille McCarthy
Conclusion: Sorting Conflict, Weaving Hope	169	(14)
Notes	183	(2)
Appendix A: Research Methods	185	(4)
Appendix B: Writing Assignments in Intro to Philosophy	189	(9)
Appendix C: Class Reflection Log (CRL) Questions	198	(3)
Appendix D: Writing Assignments in Philosophy of Education	201	(4)
Appendix E: Triple-Entry Notetaking	205	(1)
References	206	(15)
Index	221	(4)
About the Authors	225