Multi-Cultural Voices: Peer Tutoring and Critical Reflection in the Writing Center

Autor/inn/en	Okawa, Gail Y.; Fox, Thomas; Chang, Lucy J. Y.; Windsor, Shana R.; Chavez, Frank Bella, Jr.; Hayes, LaGuan
Titel	Multi-Cultural Voices: Peer Tutoring and Critical Reflection in the Writing Center
Quelle	In: Writing Center Journal, 30 (2010) 1, S.40-65 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0889-6143
Schlagwörter	Laboratories; Writing (Composition); Peer Teaching; Tutoring; Reflection; Tutors; Educational Opportunities; Student Diversity; Cultural Background; Family School Relationship; World Views; Ethnocentrism; Cultural Differences; Conflict Resolution; Tutor Training; Interpersonal Relationship; Cultural Awareness; Cultural Pluralism; Self Concept; California; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Laboratory; Laboratorium; Schreibübung; Peer group teaching; Peer Group Teaching; Förderkonzept; Nachhilfeunterricht; Förderlehrer; Lehrender; Tutor; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; World view; Weltanschauung; Ethnozentrismus; Kultureller Unterschied; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Kulturpluralismus; Selbstkonzept; Kalifornien
Abstract	Everyone involved in writing centers must recognize that the educational community of the 1990s will continue to grow more diverse culturally, linguistically, scholastically. Given this diversity, students, teachers, and tutors will become more, not less, interdependent. The ready, predictable answers and assumptions that existed once in a monocultural classroom or university don't exist anymore. The authors' hopes for these redefined social relationships in the writing center carry with them hopes for a redefined sense of academic literacy as well. This article joins the voices of two tutoring program coordinators and four peer tutors from two institutions: The University of Washington's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Writing Center and California State University, Chico's Writing Center. The variety of voices in this article illustrates, in a way that the single voice of a writing center director could not, the importance of critical reflection in a tutor-training program. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Writing Center Journal. 011 Memorial Hall University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19718. e-mail: writingcenterjournal@english.udel.edu; Web site: http://www.english.udel.edu/wcj
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10