Radical Departures: Composition and Progressive PedagogyThis book addresses some big questions: 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. These issues are covered in the book as the ways are traced in which "progressive politics" of one kind or another have played an integral role in how writing has been taught and studied in United States secondary and postsecondary schools. The three chapters in Part I explore competing versions of "progressivism" in composition and rhetoric's past and present: the pedagogical and administrative progressivism of composition's early years (during the Progressive Era of the early 20th century); the recent "conservative restoration"; and contemporary critical pedagogy. Building on these discussions of progressivism, the three chapters in Part II work to reframe and reclaim Deweyan pedagogical progressivism for composition and rhetoric's future, showing how this strand of progressive thinking might help the field develop new, pedagogy-centered understandings and practices of disciplinarity, curriculum, and outreach. Woven in with the main chapters are "intraludes," narrative accounts of the author/educator's work as a writing teacher, scholar, and public school advocate. These narratives illustrate and connect the issues highlighted in each chapter, grounding them in the reality of everyday contexts. (Each chapter includes notes; contains an extensive list of works cited.) (NKA). |
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... teaching , an intellectual and political frame for understanding why one might choose to devote one's professional life to teaching writing . In a way , this book began that day in the library stacks of that small college . Now ...
... teaching , an intellectual and political frame for understanding why one might choose to devote one's professional life to teaching writing . In a way , this book began that day in the library stacks of that small college . Now ...
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... teaching in favor of theory . In fact , there is no shortage of discussions about teaching in Compo- sition and Rhetoric . My point , rather , is that this very binary- teaching / theory — is the problem , because it risks sacrificing a ...
... teaching in favor of theory . In fact , there is no shortage of discussions about teaching in Compo- sition and Rhetoric . My point , rather , is that this very binary- teaching / theory — is the problem , because it risks sacrificing a ...
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... teach- ers are prepared to leave the teaching of teaching to others . Perhaps the most important conclusion we might draw from these two projects is that even where there is strong English edu- cation presence , teacher preparation is ...
... teach- ers are prepared to leave the teaching of teaching to others . Perhaps the most important conclusion we might draw from these two projects is that even where there is strong English edu- cation presence , teacher preparation is ...
Contents
Composition as a Progressive Enterprise | 10 |
The Conservative Restoration as Administrative | 40 |
On Institutional Literacy | 62 |
Copyright | |
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