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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is likely to sink these kinds of resources into this kind of program . But while Miller reads this as evidence that people in his field are making impracticable proposals , I read it as evidence that Rutgers runs too many sections of ...
is likely to sink these kinds of resources into this kind of program . But while Miller reads this as evidence that people in his field are making impracticable proposals , I read it as evidence that Rutgers runs too many sections of ...
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Some teachers , in fact , could not — or would not - engage in this different kind of conversation and dropped out of the group . Those of us who stayed , on the other hand , learned how to enact the kind of community Amy discusses .
Some teachers , in fact , could not — or would not - engage in this different kind of conversation and dropped out of the group . Those of us who stayed , on the other hand , learned how to enact the kind of community Amy discusses .
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... second possible explanation for Composition and Rhetoric's apparent retreat from alliance building with schoolteachers : that this kind of work does not fit neatly into the field's evolving disciplinary and institutional identity .
... second possible explanation for Composition and Rhetoric's apparent retreat from alliance building with schoolteachers : that this kind of work does not fit neatly into the field's evolving disciplinary and institutional identity .
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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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