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Beyond Ethics

Notes Toward a Historical Materialist Paideia in the Professional Writing Classroom

University of Texas at Austin

By wedding a historical materialist understanding of class formation to pedagogical efforts at teaching ethics in the professional writing classroom, language-arts instructors can intervene at an important postindustrial juncture between culture and economics. They can take a vital role in the formation and political developmentof elite and influential knowledge workers, making them more critical of the links between diachronic economic developments and locally experienced institutions such as communication practices and organizational constructions.

Key Words: ethics • pedagogy • professional writing • technical writing • business writing • postindustrial • capitalism • Marxism • class • class formation

Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Vol. 19, No. 1, 78-97 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1050651904269729


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