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2018
Volume 50, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0098-6291
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2356

Abstract

This article describes the importance of pedagogies of access for equity in literacy classrooms, especially for first-generation students, who are more likely to bring what sociologists call strategies of deference that have been shaped by differences in class culture. A threshold concepts approach can bring transparency to the values of college-level core literacy skills to help interrogate and address those differences.

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