Vision, rhetoric, and social action in the composition classroom / Kristie S. Fleckenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleckenstein, Kristie S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

English language--Social aspects.

Communication in social action.

Physical Description:

ix, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2010]

Summary:

In this innovative volume, Kristie S. Fleckenstein explores how the intersection of vision, rhetoric, and writing pedagogy in the classroom can help students become compassionate citizens who participate in the world as they become more critically aware of the world. Fleckenstein argues that all social action-behavior designed to increase human dignity, value, and quality of life-depends on a person's repertoire of visual and rhetorical habits. To develop this repertoire in students, the author advocates the incorporation of visual habits-or ways of seeing-into a language based pedagogical approach in the writing classroom. According to Fleckenstein, interweaving the visual and rhetorical in composition pedagogy enables students to perceive more readily the need for change, while arming them with the abilities and desire to enact it.

Contents:

Introduction: vision and rhetoric in social action

Stronger hopes: symbiotic knots and social action

A knot of silence: spectacle, rhetorical compliance, and the struggle for agency

A knot of bodies: visual animation and corporeal rhetoric in empathic social action

A knot of contradictions: antinomy and digressive rhetoric in subversive social action

Conclusion: the possibility of hope.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809329557

0809329557

OCLC:

317777963