Political Literacy in Composition and Rhetoric
Defending Academic Discourse against Postmodern Pluralism
Seiten
2015
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3428-5 (ISBN)
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3428-5 (ISBN)
Donald Lazere issues a call to action for the return to an emphasis on critical thinking skills and multidisciplinary approaches in the teaching of composition and rhetoric. Lazere also presents a keen sociocultural observation regarding the majority of the “Middle Americans” demographic and their learning behaviours and needs.
During the 1970s, the National Council for Teachers of English issued a series of resolutions calling for the teaching of “critical reading, listening, viewing, and thinking skills necessary to enable students to cope with the sophisticated persuasion techniques in political statements, advertising, entertainment, and news.” However, in recent decades, under the sway of multiculturalism and postmodern theory, composition and rhetoric pedagogies have strayed from these goals. In Political Literacy in Composition and Rhetoric, author and teacher Donald Lazere issues a call to action for the return to an emphasis on critical thinking skills and multidisciplinary approaches in the teaching of composition and rhetoric.
Lazere also presents a keen sociocultural observation regarding the majority of the “Middle Americans” demographic—lower-middle class, rural, white students with a conservative leaning and an occasional resistance to change— and their learning behaviors and needs. Finally, Lazere offers a roadmap for a new kind of curriculum, one that he argues will enable teachers of composition and rhetoric to foster a sense of civic literacy in their students and thus, by extension, American society as a whole.
During the 1970s, the National Council for Teachers of English issued a series of resolutions calling for the teaching of “critical reading, listening, viewing, and thinking skills necessary to enable students to cope with the sophisticated persuasion techniques in political statements, advertising, entertainment, and news.” However, in recent decades, under the sway of multiculturalism and postmodern theory, composition and rhetoric pedagogies have strayed from these goals. In Political Literacy in Composition and Rhetoric, author and teacher Donald Lazere issues a call to action for the return to an emphasis on critical thinking skills and multidisciplinary approaches in the teaching of composition and rhetoric.
Lazere also presents a keen sociocultural observation regarding the majority of the “Middle Americans” demographic—lower-middle class, rural, white students with a conservative leaning and an occasional resistance to change— and their learning behaviors and needs. Finally, Lazere offers a roadmap for a new kind of curriculum, one that he argues will enable teachers of composition and rhetoric to foster a sense of civic literacy in their students and thus, by extension, American society as a whole.
Donald Lazere, a professor emeritus of English at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA, taught as a lecturer at University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA after retirement. He is the author or editor of five books, including Why Higher Education SHOULD Have a Leftist Bias, which was published in 2013.
Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
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Verlagsort | Carbondale |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 154 x 227 mm |
Gewicht | 467 g |
Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8093-3428-3 / 0809334283 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8093-3428-5 / 9780809334285 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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