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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It begins with the premise that engaging the public is not enough precisely because there is no public waiting to be engaged ( 3 ) . Therefore , according to Mathews , change must begin in communities and move into schools rather than ...
It begins with the premise that engaging the public is not enough precisely because there is no public waiting to be engaged ( 3 ) . Therefore , according to Mathews , change must begin in communities and move into schools rather than ...
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Thus , I begin here by showing how the disciplinary and administrative constraints I have discussed throughout this book push against the very notion of pedagogy - centered curricula . Teaching Our Passions John Trimbur uses the term ...
Thus , I begin here by showing how the disciplinary and administrative constraints I have discussed throughout this book push against the very notion of pedagogy - centered curricula . Teaching Our Passions John Trimbur uses the term ...
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Programs such as the Writing Sequence ask us to stop thinking of students as merely students and to begin to think of them as writers , readers , and participants in our discipline . Among other things , this will require a shift from ...
Programs such as the Writing Sequence ask us to stop thinking of students as merely students and to begin to think of them as writers , readers , and participants in our discipline . Among other things , this will require a shift from ...
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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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