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Critical Pedagogy

In this blog post, I discuss the banking model and community-driven learning all to be left with several questions: where are our starting points?

In increasing rigidity, Beaufort may be more effective at teaching transferable writing skills, but may also lose the interest of her students.

In this week’s reading we were introduced to a concept called “Teaching for transfer”. How do teachers help their students?

This blog post discusses Beaufort’s revision process of a successful college composition class: what worked, and what didn’t.

Educators are always being criticized for their ways of teaching but society never understands why. This week we read articles that discuss as such!

Annoyance with freshmen is their (unfortunate) rite of passage—but let’s not take it out on their first-year writing courses too.

Misconceptions of academic completion within the first year of a writing students’ studies can influence fallacies of expectations

How do we get students from viewing writing as a “mysterious talent” to a “researchable activity”? Downs and Wardle help us out with this.

Who would have thought that teaching writing would make the most epic dystopian Y.A. novel ever? Certainly not you (or me).

This week we dive into our 4 philosophies of rhetoric. Berlin and Fulkerson discuss formalist, expressivists, mimetics and rhetorics