Radical Departures: Composition and Progressive PedagogyAddresses the position of composition in the academy; the current political climate, with its calls for standardized testing and accountability; the uneasy relationships between faculty in English and English education departments; and the (lack of) cooperation between postsecondary compositionists and P-12 language arts teachers. |
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Chapter 3 argues that while we have turned to our newest “ progressivism ” -critical pedagogy — as a means of resisting latter - day administrative progressivism , this alliance has had the ironic effect of exacerbating these academic ...
Chapter 3 argues that while we have turned to our newest “ progressivism ” -critical pedagogy — as a means of resisting latter - day administrative progressivism , this alliance has had the ironic effect of exacerbating these academic ...
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These are the questions that drive this chapter . They are important questions because while ... day administrative progressivism described in Chapter 2 , many compositionists have come to question the wisdom of this rapprochement .
These are the questions that drive this chapter . They are important questions because while ... day administrative progressivism described in Chapter 2 , many compositionists have come to question the wisdom of this rapprochement .
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Toward Pedagogy - Centered Curricula In Chapter 4 , I suggested that Composition and Rhetoric is I moving in two directions simultaneously : toward traditional disciplinarity and away from it . This chapter takes the latter trend as its ...
Toward Pedagogy - Centered Curricula In Chapter 4 , I suggested that Composition and Rhetoric is I moving in two directions simultaneously : toward traditional disciplinarity and away from it . This chapter takes the latter trend as its ...
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Contents
Composition as a Progressive Enterprise | 10 |
The Conservative Restoration as Administrative | 40 |
Another Progressivism | 70 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Radical Departures: Composition and Progressive Pedagogy Refiguring English studies, ISSN 1073-9637 Ripley P. Bullen Series |
| Author | Chris W. Gallagher |
| Publisher | National Council of Teachers of English, 2002 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0814138160, 9780814138168 |
| Length | 247 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / General |
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