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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These two terms — one denoting a move backward , into the past , and the other suggesting a move forward , into the future - exist in a binary that disparages the past and assumes that we are on that grand march toward a far better ...
These two terms — one denoting a move backward , into the past , and the other suggesting a move forward , into the future - exist in a binary that disparages the past and assumes that we are on that grand march toward a far better ...
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It is a political position that we have “ moved past ” ( see , for instance , Murphy ) . While educational progressives of the early twentieth century ( including John Dewey , whose work figures prominently in this book ) were often ...
It is a political position that we have “ moved past ” ( see , for instance , Murphy ) . While educational progressives of the early twentieth century ( including John Dewey , whose work figures prominently in this book ) were often ...
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Those findings are disturbing : public schools and the public are moving apart ; citizens are concerned for their own ... Therefore , according to Mathews , change must begin in communities and move into schools rather than the other ...
Those findings are disturbing : public schools and the public are moving apart ; citizens are concerned for their own ... Therefore , according to Mathews , change must begin in communities and move into schools rather than the other ...
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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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