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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But first , as I show , we need to develop a new kind of disciplinarity , one that radically departs from academic business as usual by placing a sophisticated understanding and practice of pedagogy at the center of our work .
But first , as I show , we need to develop a new kind of disciplinarity , one that radically departs from academic business as usual by placing a sophisticated understanding and practice of pedagogy at the center of our work .
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Knowledge sets the foundation to understanding , and without education we will remain socially blind to those around us . “ I guess , ” she says to Angela , “ I have more faith in education than you do .
Knowledge sets the foundation to understanding , and without education we will remain socially blind to those around us . “ I guess , ” she says to Angela , “ I have more faith in education than you do .
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We must change our understanding of students . In traditional " teach our passions ” English programs , students are “ subject ” to faculty expertise ; they are passive recipients of the professor's knowledge and ideas .
We must change our understanding of students . In traditional " teach our passions ” English programs , students are “ subject ” to faculty expertise ; they are passive recipients of the professor's knowledge and ideas .
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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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