Refiguring Rhetorical Education : Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911 /

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Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911 examines the work of five female teachers who challenged gendered and cultural expectations to create teaching practices that met the civic and cultural needs of their students. The v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Enoch, Jessica
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women teachers.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
Rhetorique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Discours politique > États-Unis.
Enseignantes > États-Unis.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
Women teachers > United States.
Students with social disabilities > Education > United States.
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911 examines the work of five female teachers who challenged gendered and cultural expectations to create teaching practices that met the civic and cultural needs of their students. The volume analyzes Lydia Maria Child's The Freedmen's Book, a post-Civil War educational textbook for newly freed slaves; Zitkala Ša's autobiographical essays published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1900 that questioned the work of off-reservation boarding schools.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780809387229

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