Upsetting Composition Commonplaces

Upsetting Composition CommonplacesIn Upsetting Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition still retains the bulk of instructional practices that were used in the decades before poststructuralist theory discredited them. While acknowledging that some of the foundational insights of poststructuralist theory can be difficult to translate to the classroom, Barnard upends several especially intransigent tenets that continue to influence the teaching of writing and how

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democratization of knowledge

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The case of Taiwan museums tells us much about Cold War politics and its legacy in East Asia

This book provides key insights from stakeholders across the teaching and learning spectrum and offers examples of pedagogical practice to those interested in facilitating arts education

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Mode of Address returns to the 1960s and '70s to reevaluate competing attitudes about the reader in some ambitious novels and influential literary theory of the era

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