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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Education could participate in this process , but only if it were understood as “ a constant reorganizing or reconstructing of experience ” ( Democracy 76 ) rather than rote memorization and “ skills - anddrills .
Education could participate in this process , but only if it were understood as “ a constant reorganizing or reconstructing of experience ” ( Democracy 76 ) rather than rote memorization and “ skills - anddrills .
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The project was conceptualized through dialogue among facilitators and participating teachers . ... The university faculty who did participate — four in all , though only two were active throughout the process — were truly facilitators ...
The project was conceptualized through dialogue among facilitators and participating teachers . ... The university faculty who did participate — four in all , though only two were active throughout the process — were truly facilitators ...
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But we also need to recognize the limitations of tinkering with tests and of participating , as White urges us to do , in “ the assessment ... or we can participate in them in an informed way to make them as good as possible " ( 103 ) .
But we also need to recognize the limitations of tinkering with tests and of participating , as White urges us to do , in “ the assessment ... or we can participate in them in an informed way to make them as good as possible " ( 103 ) .
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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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