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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In traditional " teach our passions ” English programs , students are “ subject ” to faculty expertise ; they are passive recipients of the professor's knowledge and ideas . Programs such as the Writing Sequence ask us to stop thinking ...
In traditional " teach our passions ” English programs , students are “ subject ” to faculty expertise ; they are passive recipients of the professor's knowledge and ideas . Programs such as the Writing Sequence ask us to stop thinking ...
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Thus , this CEE effort leaves us with much the same impression as the MLA project : that English professors — even those interested in their own development as teachers — are prepared to leave the teaching of teaching to others .
Thus , this CEE effort leaves us with much the same impression as the MLA project : that English professors — even those interested in their own development as teachers — are prepared to leave the teaching of teaching to others .
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CLA has even established an “ Ask the Professor ” Web site for this purpose . ... They would require professors to give up the still prevalent notion that they are the experts and the teachers are the laypeople .
CLA has even established an “ Ask the Professor ” Web site for this purpose . ... They would require professors to give up the still prevalent notion that they are the experts and the teachers are the laypeople .
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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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