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POLITICAL LITERACY IN COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC
DEFENDING ACADEMIC DISCOURSE AGAINST POSTMODERN PLURALISM |
| By: |
Donald Lazere |
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Paperback |
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£48.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0809334283 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780809334285 |
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| Publisher: |
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 July, 2015 |
| Pages: |
344 |
| Description: |
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. |
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During the 1970s, the National Council for Teachers of English issued a series of res-olutions calling for the teaching of "critical reading, listening, viewing, and thinking skills necessary to enable students to cope with the sophisticated persuasion tech-niques in political statements, advertising, entertainment, and news." However, in recent decades, under the sway of multi-culturalism and postmodern theory, com-position and rhetoric pedagogies have strayed from these goals. In Political Lit-eracy 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 composi-tion 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 rheto-ric to foster a sense of civic literacy in their students and thus, by extension, American society as a whole. |
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Southern Illinois University Press |
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