Teaching in the 21st century: Merging critical theory and practice for the writing and rhetoric class.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Welch, Kathleen E., | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Jobe, Karen Denise. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-16T12:20:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-08-16T12:20:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation seeks to assist teachers of first-year composition as they move into the 21st century. Focusing on the two-year institution, but also asking for the assistance of University Writing Program Administrators as they train graduate students, it delineates a program that requires training, theory, experience, and attitude on the part of 21st century first-year composition teachers. My theoretical base draws on Freire, Berlin, Shor, Vygotsky, many feminisms, Crowley, Hillocks, Halasek, and Welch. Chapter 1 sets up the critical, liberatory, and student centered class as it offers a basic literature review for the critical writing and rhetoric teacher. Chapter 2 explores student resistance and suggests ways to make the many resistances productive. Through a Hillocks inspired analysis, Chapter 3 offers a fictional writing and rhetoric teacher in his first year as a model. Chapter 4 theorizes technology in the classroom and suggests ways to connect film, video, and computers to students' lives so that they may become judicious cybercitizens. Chapter 5 concludes that 21st century first-year writing and rhetoric must become a discipline in which those who teach it are dedicated to the course, well-trained, and well-compensated. It takes into account the continuing proliferation of the current-traditional paradigm as it seeks to insure that students emerge from the first-year writing sequence with critical, activist, and open minds, and that they can write persuasively and effectively for chosen specific audiences. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | viii, 192 leaves ; | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11244/1079 | |
| dc.note | Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2143. | en_US |
| dc.note | Adviser: Kathleen E. Welch. | en_US |
| dc.subject | English language Rhetoric Study and teaching United States. | en_US |
| dc.subject | English language Composition and exercises Study and teaching United States. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Language, Rhetoric and Composition. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education, Higher United States. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education, Language and Literature. | en_US |
| dc.thesis.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Department of English | en_US |
| dc.title | Teaching in the 21st century: Merging critical theory and practice for the writing and rhetoric class. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| ou.group | College of Arts and Sciences::Department of English | |
| ou.identifier | (UMI)AAI3225342 | en_US |
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