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A Pedagogy Of Persistence: Access Through Arrangement In The Age Of New Media, Jennifer Kontny
A Pedagogy Of Persistence: Access Through Arrangement In The Age Of New Media, Jennifer Kontny
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Fostering access in our writing classrooms has been a centrally important goal in the field of rhetoric and composition since the social turn in the 1980s. As a means of creating classroom spaces that help students gain access to new identities and ways of being in the world, those in our discipline have long privileged pedagogies that focus on invention. This dissertation traces the work of those in diverse areas of the field in order to show our wide-spread favoring of invention (or creativity, discovery, and the "new"). Unfortunately, I argue that the attention we have paid to invention has …
Engaging Engagement: Framing The Civic Education Movement In Higher Education, Chad Woolard
Engaging Engagement: Framing The Civic Education Movement In Higher Education, Chad Woolard
Theses and Dissertations
Civic education in higher education is housed in various types of institutions (i.e. community colleges, four year universities, public and private institutions), institutional offices, academic departments, and larger, cross-campus initiatives and organizations. Civic education programs promote numerous activities to foster student engagement both inside and outside the classroom. Many in higher education have embraced the civic education movement; however, as with other social movements, the civic education movement is still a contested area. Defining civic education (i.e. civic engagement, service learning, political engagement, community engagement, etc.) becomes problematic because there seems to be as many terms for civic education as …