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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At the same time , there is a strange irony at work in how our field understands “ progressivism . ” For many in Composition and Rhetoric , progressive has come to connote a weak - kneed and naive liberalism - and is thus viewed as ...
At the same time , there is a strange irony at work in how our field understands “ progressivism . ” For many in Composition and Rhetoric , progressive has come to connote a weak - kneed and naive liberalism - and is thus viewed as ...
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This idea was the cornerstone of Deweyan pedagogical progressivism , as it is the cornerstone of my understanding of pedagogy , which invites teachers and learners to take stock together of how they construct knowledge , how they make ...
This idea was the cornerstone of Deweyan pedagogical progressivism , as it is the cornerstone of my understanding of pedagogy , which invites teachers and learners to take stock together of how they construct knowledge , how they make ...
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The truth is , neither pedagogical nor administrative progressivism has ever fully died out ; we saw a revival of Deweyan progressivism in the 1960s , for instance , and then again in more recent years in response to the back - to ...
The truth is , neither pedagogical nor administrative progressivism has ever fully died out ; we saw a revival of Deweyan progressivism in the 1960s , for instance , and then again in more recent years in response to the back - to ...
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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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