Pedagogy

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Against Best Practices

Shea, Anne

2022 Pedagogy

In this commentary, the author urges educators to consider how the discourse of best practices emerges out of and legitimizes neoliberalism's logic of differential worth.

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Too Close for ContextWhere Students Get Stuck When Close Reading

Carter, Jaclyn; Clarke, Michael Tavel; Halpern, Faye; Mason, Derritt; Nicol, Jessica;

2022 Pedagogy

doi:10.1215/15314200-9859235

The activity of close reading lies at the heart of literary studies, a “signature pedagogy” that distinguishes English from other disciplines. Despite its centrality to the discipline, however, close reading has been curiously resistant to analysis. This lesson study aimed to determine where...

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Practices for Addressing Affective Difficulty in the Writing ClassroomLessons Learned through Blue Velvet

McCabe, Rachel

2022 Pedagogy

doi:10.1215/15314200-9859252

Any attempt to control the content and conversations of first-year composition classrooms has become increasingly complicated by social media and technology. Building on the types of textual difficulty explored by scholars like Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donahue, Jeffrey Berman, and...

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Episodic StorytellingTheorizing Seriality in the Undergraduate Literature Classroom

D' Amore, Maura

2022 Pedagogy

doi:10.1215/15314200-9859269

This essay maps the logistics and advantages of reading and teaching texts in their original installments as a means of theorizing seriality in the undergraduate literature classroom.

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The Inaudacity of Hope

Walker, Paul

2022 Pedagogy

doi:10.1215/15314200-9859286

Writing assessment and social justice rely largely on success-trajectory narratives, which sideline productive failure as a means of resisting normative futurity-based modes of education and policy. This essay offers an alternative perspective on failure in writing assessment and social justice...

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Spatial Knowledge Making from Writing about Appalachia outside Appalachia

Shepley, Nathan

2022 Pedagogy

doi:10.1215/15314200-9859303

This article uses narrative inquiry to examine one instructor's experiences teaching two first-year writing classes, each one marked by different pedagogical choices. Themed with the topic of place and foregrounding the recurring example of Appalachia, the classes were nonetheless taught outside...

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Film in the Composition ClassroomMoving away from the Film Supplement

Shaw, Zack

2022 Pedagogy

doi:10.1215/15314200-9859320

Instructors of writing-intensive disciplines infrequently integrate cinematic media in composition curricula. Furthermore, when instructors use films in composition courses, they often treat films merely as supplemental texts tangentially relevant to course topics and prioritize teaching content...

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“A Different Kind of Meaning Is Exposed”Public Humanities and Avoiding the Emma Syndrome

Stroup, William

2022 Pedagogy

doi:10.1215/15314200-9859337

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2022 Pedagogy

doi:10.1215/15314200-9859354