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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Student inquiry into the community was viewed not only as a rich learning experience , but also as an opportunity for community development . Through such projects , students would become more informed and more involved in their local ...
Student inquiry into the community was viewed not only as a rich learning experience , but also as an opportunity for community development . Through such projects , students would become more informed and more involved in their local ...
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Without institutional literacy , they , like us , run the risk of becoming institutionalized , mystified by what appear to ... These portfolios become part of the conversation - part of the very identity , she tells us of the school by ...
Without institutional literacy , they , like us , run the risk of becoming institutionalized , mystified by what appear to ... These portfolios become part of the conversation - part of the very identity , she tells us of the school by ...
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Even as the coverage model has become more difficult to defend intellectually , we have seen an erosion of economic ... as programmatic hires , institutional resources are becoming scarcer , and student enrollment is often on the rise .
Even as the coverage model has become more difficult to defend intellectually , we have seen an erosion of economic ... as programmatic hires , institutional resources are becoming scarcer , and student enrollment is often on the rise .
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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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