by Stephen Fishman
Utah State University Press, 2002
Paper: 978-0-87421-447-5 | eISBN: 978-0-87421-474-1
Library of Congress Classification PE1405.U6F57 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.00711073

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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.



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