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Vision, Rhetoric, and Social Action in the Composition Classroom (Paperback)
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Vision, Rhetoric, and Social Action in the Composition Classroom (Paperback)
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This work uses an engaging composition pedagogy as a tool for
social change. 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 more readily
perceive the need for change, while arming them with the abilities
and desire to enact it. The author addresses social action from the
perspective of three visual habits: spectacle, which fosters
disengagement; animation, or fusing body with meaning; and,
antinomy, which invites the invention of new realities.
Fleckenstein then examines the ways in which particular visual
habits interact with rhetorical habits and with classroom methods,
resulting in the emergence of various forms of social action. To
enhance the understanding of the concepts she discusses, the author
represents the intertwining relationships of vision, rhetoric, and
writing pedagogy graphically as what she calls symbiotic knots. In
tracing the modes of social action privileged by a visual habit and
a teacher's pedagogical choices, Fleckenstein attends particularly
to the experiences of students who have been traditionally barred
from participation in the public sphere because of gender, race, or
class. The book culminates in a call for visually and rhetorically
robust writing pedagogies. In ""Vision, Rhetoric, and Social Action
in the Composition Classroom"", Fleckenstein combines classic
methods of rhetorical teaching with fresh perspectives to provide a
unique guide for initiating important improvements in teaching
social action. The result is a remarkable volume that empowers
teachers to best inspire students to take part in their world at
that most crucial moment - when they are discovering it.
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