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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For pedagogical progressives , the primary aims of education were to cultivate in students an active , reflective approach to their own learning , and to encourage the study and practice of living well with others .
For pedagogical progressives , the primary aims of education were to cultivate in students an active , reflective approach to their own learning , and to encourage the study and practice of living well with others .
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As Murphy and Grant suggest , the term “ constructivism ” connotes a theory that treats knowledge - making as a process of interaction between and among teachers and learners , rather than ( as in functionalism ) the transmission of ...
As Murphy and Grant suggest , the term “ constructivism ” connotes a theory that treats knowledge - making as a process of interaction between and among teachers and learners , rather than ( as in functionalism ) the transmission of ...
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This is why we're learning the uses of chaos . This is why we're risking complexity . Because education without alternatives , as the teachers who participated in a Goals 2000 local assessments project reminded me , is no education at ...
This is why we're learning the uses of chaos . This is why we're risking complexity . Because education without alternatives , as the teachers who participated in a Goals 2000 local assessments project reminded me , is no education at ...
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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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