Failure pedagogies : learning and unlearning what it means to fail / edited by Allison D. Carr and Laura R. Micciche.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carr, Allison D., 1983- editor.

Micciche, Laura R., editor.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School failure.

Culturally relevant pedagogy.

Physical Description:

xv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Peter Lang, [2020]

Summary:

"Can we all learn from failure equally? Failure Pedagogies examines the ways failure is often appropriated to advantage those most likely to be insulated from the risks associated with pursuing it as a creative strategy. Contributors ask questions that examine what happens when failures do not necessarily lead to progress or innovation: How is risk distributed? For whom is failure "safe" and why? For whom is failure a real end rather than an opening to generative possibilities? To address these questions, we focus largely on pedagogical settings-classrooms, universities, and the conventions that reign there-but also configure pedagogy as a broad cultural practice that teaches acceptable and unacceptable forms of resistance, subversion, and risk. Contributors focus on a range of topics, including teaching and failure, language failures, fake news, disaster response failures, academic racism, sexual harassment and gender bias, queer failure, intersectionality and infertility activism, and institutional failures to imagine disabled bodies. Failure Pedagogies will be of interest to scholars, students, and teachers of writing, rhetoric, and popular culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: Failure, fear, and alternate routes / Chris Hay

Introduction: Failure's sweat / Allison D. Carr and Laura R. Micciche

When one door closes, another opens; or, appreciating clichés / Caddie Alford

The costs of clarity / Alba Newmann Holmes and Kara Wittman

After the accusation : the lasting impact of plagiarism trauma on student writing behaviors / Kate Pantelides

Failure potential : using failure as feedback / Darci Thoune

Rhetorical velocity and fake news / Jim Ridolfo

Failure as exigence : accusation and apology as opportunities for (re)invention trauma as context / R.J. Lambert

Redefining failure or controlling a sense of self / Nancy G. Barrón and Sibylle Gruber

A force of disruption : refusing the success/failure complex / Anne Dalke

Who survives the witch hunt? Supporting our students in a process we know will fail them / Shari J. Stenberg and Stacey Waite

The uses of queer failure : navigating the pedagogical mandate of happiness / Gavin P. Johnson and Ryan Sheehan

Committing to failure : critical pedagogy and failure in classroom teaching / Jeanette Lehn

Messy processes into and out of failure : professional identities and openaccess writers / Cassandra Phillips and Joanne Baird Giordano

Failure to wake? What #WPAlistservefeministrevolution tells us about a "feminist" writing studies / Michelle LaFrance

Persevering even when "we are all full of mad" : a lesson in the value of incremental progress / Julie Myatt

"You Google infertility and you don't see me" : towards an intersectional framework resisting the rhetorical slippages of reproductive activism / Maria Novotny with Juliette Givhan

Embracing the ugly / Kara Taczak and Debbie Gale Mitchell

Narrativizing dis/ability : deconstructing institutional uses of disability narratives / Adam Hubrig

Papelitos guardados, part I : on collegiality and failure / Alex Brown

Afterword: Failure and letting go / Asao B. Inoue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Failure pedagogies

ISBN:

9781433174872

9781433174865

1433174863

1433174871

OCLC:

1141112197

Publisher Number:

99985191473