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This volume offers concrete answers to the question of how we can
use imagery to enrich the teaching of reading and writing. The
chapters are organized according to two guiding principles. First,
each addresses specific aspects of the inextricable integration of
imagery and language in the teaching of reading and writing.
Imagery is not privileged over language; the fusion of the two is
emphasized. Second, each focuses on a particular kind of
imagery--mental, graphic, or verbal--describing teaching/learning
strategies based on the deployment of that kind of imagery in the
classroom.
There is currently a renewed acknowledgment of the importance of
imagery in meaning. The rapid spread of the World Wide Web,
computer interfacing, and virtual reality further highlights the
need to attend to the influence of imagery in a networked world. In
response to these shifts in scholarly and cultural perspectives,
NCTE has established a committee on visual literacy, and an
emphasis on visual literacy has been incorporated into the IRA/NCTE
Standards for the English Language Arts. This book contributes
significantly toward filling the need for explicit and specific
theory-based methods teachers can use to integrate imagery into
their pedagogy. Accessible and lively chapters include classroom
activities and student-generated examples. "Language and Image in
the Reading-Writing Classroom" is an excellent text for preservice
and in-service pedagogy courses and an important resource for
practicing teachers, researchers, and professionals in the
field.
Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward
virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on
materiality. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to
the attention paid by literary theorists, digital humanists,
rhetoricians, philosophers, and designers to the crafted
environment, the manner in which artifacts mediate human relations,
and the constitution of a world in which the boundary between
humans and things has seemingly imploded. The chapters reflect on
questions about the extent to which we ought to view humans and
nonhuman artifacts as having equal capacity for agency and life,
and the ways in which technological mediation challenges the
central tenets of humanism and anthropocentrism. Contemporary
theories of human-object relations presage the arrival of the
posthuman, which is no longer a futuristic or science-fictional
concept but rather one descriptive of the present, and indeed, the
past. Discussions of the posthuman already have a long history in
fields like literary theory, rhetoric, and philosophy, and as
advances in design and technology result in increasingly engaging
artifacts that mediate more and more aspects of everyday life, it
becomes necessary to engage in a systematic, interdisciplinary,
critical examination of the intersection of the domains of design,
technological mediation, and the posthuman. Thus, this collection
brings diverse disciplines together to foster a dialogue on
significant technological issues pertinent to philosophy, rhetoric,
aesthetics, and science.
Though the progress of technology continually pushes life towards
virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on
materiality. Radical Interface: Transdisciplinary Interventions on
Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to literary
theorists', digital humanists', rhetoricians', philosophers', and
designers' attention to the crafted environment, the manner in
which artifacts mediate human relations, and the constitution of a
world in which the boundary between humans and things has seemingly
imploded. The essays reflect on questions about the extent to which
we ought to view humans and nonhuman artifacts as having equal
capacity for agency and life, and the ways in which technological
mediation challenges the central tenets of humanism and
anthropocentrism. Contemporary theories of human-object relations
presage the arrival of the posthuman, which is no longer a
futuristic or science-fictional concept but rather one descriptive
of the present, and indeed, the past. Discussions of the posthuman
already have a long history in fields like literary theory,
rhetoric, and philosophy, and as advances in design and technology
result in increasingly engaging artifacts that mediate more and
more aspects of everyday life, it becomes necessary to engage in a
systematic, interdisciplinary, critical examination of the
intersection of the domains of design, technological mediation, and
the posthuman. Radical Interface thus brings diverse disciplines
together to foster a dialog on significant technological issues
pertinent to philosophy, rhetoric, aesthetics, and science.
The essays in WAYS OF SEEING, WAYS OF SPEAKING: THE INTEGRATION OF
RHETORIC AND VISION IN CONSTRUCTING THE REAL explore the
intersections among image, word, and visual habits in shaping
realities and subjectivities. Each of the nine authors addresses
the following question: How is the constitution of our world and
our identities composed of the intricate interweaving of imagery,
rhetoric, and shared ways of seeing? Central to the essays
comprising this book is the belief that how we articulate our
realities and identities is inseparable from how we see reality and
what we see as reality. Understanding any aspect of human
existence-from scientific knowledge, to constructions of identity,
to the interface of bodies and technologies-requires attention to
the integration of ways of seeing and ways of speaking. WAYS OF
SEEING, WAYS OF SPEAKING is groundbreaking in three ways. First, it
is an exploration of the way in which our construction of the real
is a communal activity involving image, rhetoric, and visual
habits. Second, it provides insight into the dynamic by which any
construction of the real-a knotting of rhetoric, imagery, and
visual conventions-emerges, grows to dominance, and serves as a
site of resistance. Third, these essays, jointly and individually,
set a course for further work in analyzing the integration of
image, rhetoric, and visual habits in myriad constructions of the
real. CONTRIBUTORS Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Don Ihde, Alan Gross,
Anne Frances Wysocki, Sue Hum, Gunther Kress, Catherine L. Hobbs,
Mieke Bal, David Palumbo-Liu, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Valentina
Vitali ABOUT THE EDITORS Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Associate
Professor of English at Florida State University, is the author of
Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching (2003),
winner of the 2005 Conference on College Composition and
Communication's Best Book of the Year Award. Sue Hum, Assistant
Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is
the co-editor, with Peter Vandenberg and Jennifer Clary-Lemon, of
Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing
Teachers (2006). Linda T. Calendrillo is Dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences at Valdosta State University. She is the
co-editor, with Kristie Fleckenstein, of JAEPL: The Journal of the
Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning.
This volume offers concrete answers to the question of how we can
use imagery to enrich the teaching of reading and writing. The
chapters are organized according to two guiding principles. First,
each addresses specific aspects of the inextricable integration of
imagery and language in the teaching of reading and writing.
Imagery is not privileged over language; the fusion of the two is
emphasized. Second, each focuses on a particular kind of
imagery--mental, graphic, or verbal--describing teaching/learning
strategies based on the deployment of that kind of imagery in the
classroom.
There is currently a renewed acknowledgment of the importance of
imagery in meaning. The rapid spread of the World Wide Web,
computer interfacing, and virtual reality further highlights the
need to attend to the influence of imagery in a networked world. In
response to these shifts in scholarly and cultural perspectives,
NCTE has established a committee on visual literacy, and an
emphasis on visual literacy has been incorporated into the IRA/NCTE
Standards for the English Language Arts. This book contributes
significantly toward filling the need for explicit and specific
theory-based methods teachers can use to integrate imagery into
their pedagogy. Accessible and lively chapters include classroom
activities and student-generated examples. "Language and Image in
the Reading-Writing Classroom" is an excellent text for preservice
and in-service pedagogy courses and an important resource for
practicing teachers, researchers, and professionals in the
field.
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.
"Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching "is a
response to calls to enlarge the purview of literacy to include
imagery in its many modalities and various facets. Kristie S.
Fleckenstein asserts that all meaning, linguistic or otherwise, is
a result of the transaction between image and word. She implements
the concept of imageword--a mutually constitutive fusion of image
and word--to reassess language arts education and promote a double
vision of reading and writing. Utilizing an accessible fourfold
structure, she then applies the concept to the classroom,
reconfiguring what teachers do when they teach, how they teach,
what they teach with, and how they teach ethically. Fleckenstein
does not discount the importance of text in the quest for literacy.
Instead, she places the language arts classroom and teacher at the
juncture of image and word to examine the ways imagery enables and
disables the teaching of and the act of reading and writing.
Learning results from the double play of language and image, she
argues. Helping teachers and students dissolve the boundaries
between text and image, the volume outlines how to see reading and
writing as something more than words and language and to
disestablish our definitions of literacy as wholly linguistic.
"Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching "comes at
a critical time in our cultural history. Echoing the opinion that
postmodernity is a product of imagery rather than textuality,
Fleckenstein argues that we must evolve new literacies when we live
in a culture saturated by images on computer screens, televisions,
even billboards. Decisively and clearly, she demonstrates the
importance of incorporatingimagery--which is inextricably linked to
our psychological, social, and textual lives--into our
epistemologies and literacy teaching.
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