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"Meeting Them Where They're At": Power Dynamics within the Language of Student-Tutor Interactions Item Info
- Title:
- "Meeting Them Where They're At": Power Dynamics within the Language of Student-Tutor Interactions
- Creator:
- Del Rosario, Justin
- Date Created:
- 2025-05
- Description:
- Abstract: This qualitative case study is aimed towards interrogating what and how language is utilized within writing center student-tutor interactions to inherently sustain or subvert institutional power dynamics. In loosely structured interviews with both students and tutors, three key themes were found as significant trends throughout the collective data. First, newer individuals exposed to interactions at the writing center disproportionately reinforce hierarchical norms. Second, verbal communication choices have the potential to be “overly nice” or act as a form of capitalist politeness, further obscuring systemic inequalities. Finally, body language materially encodes itself within cultural assumptions about authority and the physical space. By exposing how this power operates, this research argues for transformative tutoring practices that challenge the oppressive structures, center student agency, and reject performative practices of autho
- Subjects:
- writing center tutoring language students Marxism Tara Yosso
- Methods:
- qualitative research interviews
- Location:
- Nevada State University Writing Center
- Latitude:
- 35.98330936
- Longitude:
- -114.9392226
- Language:
- English
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- ""Meeting Them Where They're At": Power Dynamics within the Language of Student-Tutor Interactions", English Honors Thesis Repository, Nevada State University
- Reference Link:
- https://nevada-state-english.github.io/nsu-english-thesis/items/ht037.html