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Imbalances And Inequities: The Structure Of Inquiry And Its Place In Rhetorical Studies, Kathleen F. Mcconnell
Imbalances And Inequities: The Structure Of Inquiry And Its Place In Rhetorical Studies, Kathleen F. Mcconnell
Kathleen F McConnell
Inquiry’s place in rhetorical studies has long been contentious. Critics argue that academic professionalism and the rise of criticism and theory have diminished rhetoric as a pragmatic art. The recent trend in higher education toward greater restrictions on academic inquiry poses new problems for rhetorical studies, particularly where those restrictions exacerbate existing educational inequities. In the effort to address those inequities, a distinction needs to be made between old concerns with inquiry and the new issues any reorganization of inquiry will present. The generic support for inquiry that universities provide benefits rhetorical studies by lending structure to inquiry processes fraught …
Connective Tissue, Critical Ties: Academic Collaboration As A Form And Ethics Of Kinship, Kathleen F. Mcconnell
Connective Tissue, Critical Ties: Academic Collaboration As A Form And Ethics Of Kinship, Kathleen F. Mcconnell
Kathleen F McConnell
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In Appreciation Of The Kind Of Rhetoric We Learn In School: An Institutional Perspective On The Rhetorical Situation And On Education, Kathleen F. Mcconnell
In Appreciation Of The Kind Of Rhetoric We Learn In School: An Institutional Perspective On The Rhetorical Situation And On Education, Kathleen F. Mcconnell
Kathleen F McConnell
Theoretical discussion of the rhetorical situation has been dedicated largely to questions of its ontology and of how it is constituted. Where this ontological orientation has inclined theorists to treat the concept as a theoretical premise, an institutional orientation would instead frame constructivist accounts of the rhetorical situation as a political-pedagogical commitment and treat the ethical obligations that arise from any given situation as bound to specific institutional forms. From an institutional perspective, the rhetorical situation is to conscience as the institution of school is to education. The distinction of both rhetorical situations and schools lies not in their contrivedness …