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Student Writing and Social Justice: Towards Structural Change in Higher Education

Student Writing and Social Justice: Towards Structural Change in Higher Education

Reyes, Natalia Ávila

Hardcover

Writing Instruction

PREORDER - Expected ship date July 22, 2027

ISBN10: 135058214X
ISBN13: 9781350582149
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 22 2027
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The diversity of the student body in higher education is a global phenomenon that, over the years, has become integral to most university systems. However, the teaching and development of writing for new student populations are often framed as a challenge, reduced to a framing of knowledge and skills deficit, and resorting to remedial courses as the primary institutional response.

This book draws on two research projects conducted over three years-one cross-sectional and one longitudinal-focused on students' perspectives within inclusion programs in Chilean universities. Using a theoretical and methodological framework that broadens the traditional concept of writing development, the book delves into recurring themes in the writing experiences of students who participated in the studies: what deficit thinking is and how it operates in students' writing; the writing practices and self-regulation strategies they use at university; the challenges they face in constructing their academic voice, and the reductive experience institutions offer in relation to writing. These findings, which highlight students' agency and desire for effective participation in higher education, are interpreted through social justice theories-particularly the concepts of redistribution, recognition, and representation-to propose a pedagogical model that reimagines how writing is taught in higher education, emphasising the need for a structural change in current institutional responses to student diversity.

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