Title
When community fails to transform: the raveling and unraveling of a community of writers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2000
Abstract
This paper examines the importance of the notion of community in the practices of a remedial writing class at an urban university. Although labeled by their teacher as a ldquocommunity of writersrdquo this group did not write, and its members were judged by their university as failed writers. Their story illustrates the high value placed on the idea of community in school, its vulnerable nature and the fundamental conditions necessary to building its resilience. Implications for the role of community in remediation in higher education are noted in light of the failure of this group to form and sustain practices of community that might have supported their becoming successful writers.
Publication Title
The Urban Review
Repository Citation
Calderwood, Patricia E., "When community fails to transform: the raveling and unraveling of a community of writers" (2000). School of Education and Human Development Faculty Publications. 19.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/education-facultypubs/19
Published Citation
Calderwood, P. E. (2000). When community fails to transform: the raveling and unraveling of a community of writers. The Urban Review, 32, (3), 263-292.
DOI
10.1023/A:1005174328702
Peer Reviewed
Comments
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