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Responsible Pedagogy - Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education (Hardcover)
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Responsible Pedagogy - Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education (Hardcover)
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In recent decades, public higher education has faced perpetual
crises. As states slash investment in postsecondary education and
for-profit entities seek to supplant public colleges and
universities, these public institutions have tried to compete by
maximizing efficiency, namely, by downplaying and outsourcing the
labor of teachers. Responsible Pedagogy makes a fresh case for the
importance and value of public higher education and the work of
teaching. In making this case, Eric Detweiler surveys the history
of rhetoric and writing in postsecondary education, looking in
particular at the teacher-student relationship. He finds that from
the Socratic method to medieval exercises, from MOOCs to remote,
asynchronous learning, the balance of authority and agency in the
classroom is often precarious. But the problem goes deeper.
Underlying both authority and agency is the value of mastery, which
the teacher is to impart to the student. It is this emphasis on
mastery, Detweiler argues, that distorts the proper relation
between the student and teacher, a relationship in which they are
responsible for and vulnerable to each other. Drawing on
contemporary ethics, rhetorical theory, and critiques of practices
in the online classroom, Detweiler develops a pedagogy of
responsibility and shows how it can be applied in writing and
communication curricula, assignments, and teacher-student
interactions. Rehabilitating the proper role of the teacher,
Responsible Pedagogy calls into question our newfound trust in
educational technology and points the way to a better, more
effective pedagogy.
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