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Beteiligte: Gay, Pamela
In: Journal of Basic Writing, 12, 1993, 2, S. 29-40
veröffentlicht:
City University of New York
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Umfang: 29-40
ISSN: 0147-1635
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Basic Writing
Sprache: Englisch
Kollektion: sid-55-col-jstoras14
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<p>In "Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing," Mina P. Shaughnessy (1976) metaphorically likened the experience of basic writers to that of "uncultured natives" under European colonization. Gay takes the metaphor seriously. She questions colonizing basic writers to the extent that: (1) they risk losing their difference; (2) they do not develop their differences through the language they speak, the culture they know, the lives they've lived; and (3) those of us in the first world, not hearing difference, will fail to see outside our privileged lives. Gay advocates decolonizing our pedagogical practices and encourages a new pedagogy of voice in a dialogized classroom space where teacher and students keep constructing and reconstructing from their different locations, a nexus of identities.</p>