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Composition in the age of austerity / edited by Nancy Welch, Tony Scott.

Van Pelt Library PE1405.U6 C59 2016
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Welch, Nancy, 1963- editor.
Scott, Tony, 1968- editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Political aspects--United States.
English language.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Economic aspects--United States.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).
United States.
Physical Description:
vi, 235 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Logan : Utah State University Press, [2016]
Summary:
"How neoliberal political economy shapes writing assessments, curricula, teacher agency, program administration, and funding distribution. How neoliberal political economy dictates direction of scholarship, because the economic and political agenda shaping the terms of work, the methods, and the ways of assessing writing also shapes directions of scholarship"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Our Trojan horse : outcomes assessment and the resurrection of competency-based education / Chris W. Gallagher
Confessions of an assessment fellow / Deborah Mutnick
First-year composition course redesigns : pedagogical innovation or solution to the "cost disease"? / Emily J. Isaacs
Who's coming to the composition classroom : K-12 writing in and outside of common core state standards / Marcelle M. Haddix and Brandi Williams
The national writing project in the age of austerity / Tom Fox and Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
Occupy basic writing : pedagogy in the wake of austerity / Susan Naomi Bernstein
Austerity behind bars : the "cost" of prison writing programs / Tobi Jacobi
Buskerfest : the struggle for space in public rhetorical education / Mary Ann Cain
First-year writing and the angels of austerity : a re-domesticated drama / Nancy Welch
What happens when ideological narratives lose their force? / Jeanne Gunner
Composition's dead / Ann Larson
Austerity, contingency, and administrative bloat : writing programs in an age of feast and famine / Eileen Schell
Beyond marketability : locating teacher agency in the neoliberal university / Shari Stenberg
Animated by the entrepreneurial spirit : austerity, dispossession, and composition's last living act / Tony Scott
Afterword : Hacking the body politic / Lil Brannon.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781607324447
160732444X
OCLC:
910334504

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