[Teaching_Composition] Irv, Hairston, and Citation
Kathy Fitch
teaching_composition@mailman.eppg.com
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 19:56:23 -0500
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I like this bit from Hairston:
<< It's a model that puts dogma before diversity, politics before craft,
ideology before critical thinking, and the social goals of the teacher
before the educational needs of the student. It's a regressive model that
undermines the progress we've made in teaching writing, one that threatens
to silence student voices and jeopardize the process-oriented, low-risk,
student-centered classroom we've worked so hard to establish as the norm.
It's a model that doesn't take freshman English seriously in its own right
but conceives of it as a tool, something to be used. The new model
envisions required writing courses as vehicles for social reform rather than
as student-centered workshops designed to build students' confidence and
competence as writers.>>
Rather than casting students as too fragile to encounter new ideas, she's
building a case for making student writing the cynosure of the composition
classroom. It's a big stretch to construe her as dismissive of students-a
ridiculously bigger one to cast her as promoting racial stereotyping. I
can't seem to work up even a smidge of fear over her arguing in favor of
making student writing the source for practicing, illustrating, and
reinforcing writing skills-and this even though I don't think student
writing necessarily needs to be the only kind of text ever encountered in
FYC.
I saw a whole lot of flying straw, there.
Anyway, I think the _Chronicle_ article appeared on January 23, 1991, if
that helps.
Kathy
Kathy Fitch
kfitch@kafkaz.net
kafkaz@kafkaz.net
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
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12.0pt'>I like this bit from Hairston:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'><< It’s a model that puts dogma before diversity, =
politics
before craft, ideology before critical thinking, and the social goals of =
the
teacher before the educational needs of the student. It’s a
regressive model that undermines the progress we’ve made in =
teaching
writing, one that threatens to silence student voices and jeopardize the
process-oriented, low-risk, <span class=3Dgrame>student</span>-centered =
classroom
we’ve worked so hard to establish as the norm. It’s a =
model
that doesn’t take freshman English seriously in its own right but
conceives of it as a tool, something to be used. The new model =
envisions
required writing courses as vehicles for social reform rather than as
student-centered workshops designed to build students’ confidence =
and
competence as writers.>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'>Rather than casting students as too fragile to encounter new =
ideas,
she’s building a case for making student writing the cynosure of =
the
composition classroom. It’s a big stretch to construe her as
dismissive of students—a ridiculously bigger one to cast her as =
promoting
racial stereotyping. I can’t seem to work up even a smidge =
of fear
over her arguing in favor of making student writing the source for =
practicing,
illustrating, and reinforcing writing skills—and this even though =
I
don’t think student writing necessarily needs to be the only kind =
of text
ever encountered in FYC.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
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there.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
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12.0pt'>Anyway, I think the _<i><span =
style=3D'font-style:italic'>Chronicle</span></i>_
article appeared on January 23, 1991, if that =
helps.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
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