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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Reading and writing skills , according to Cremin , were " combined as elements of communication , to be studied within the context of actual conversation and writing ” ( 132 ) . In the age of skills - and - drills instruction , Parker ...
Reading and writing skills , according to Cremin , were " combined as elements of communication , to be studied within the context of actual conversation and writing ” ( 132 ) . In the age of skills - and - drills instruction , Parker ...
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He makes it clear that at stake here are functional reading and writing skills : “ I believe that the primary function of our schools is to teach students a body of skill and knowledge that will enable them to function in modern society ...
He makes it clear that at stake here are functional reading and writing skills : “ I believe that the primary function of our schools is to teach students a body of skill and knowledge that will enable them to function in modern society ...
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Quite often the relationship of introductory courses to advanced courses is understood thus : intro courses provide skills and advanced courses provide content . Underlying this model is the assumption that acts of reading and writing ...
Quite often the relationship of introductory courses to advanced courses is understood thus : intro courses provide skills and advanced courses provide content . Underlying this model is the assumption that acts of reading and writing ...
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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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