...Anne Shea Abstract In this commentary, the author urges educators to consider how the discourse of best practices emerges out of and legitimizes neoliberalism's logic of differential worth. ashea@cca.edu Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 neoliberal reason pedagogy...

...Colin Irvine After establishing how and why managerialism has simplified and thus corrupted the concept of “best practices,” this essay draws on a literary critical theory to explore ways professors and administrators alike might engage in complex, scholarly discussions about the learning...

... and colleges increasingly decide to make critical thinking and student engagement key factors in their brand, it can be very useful to reexamine the habits that we adopt and to consider some of the best practices of our colleagues in other departments. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Augusta Rohrbach This article explores how one writing initiative— ESQ ’s “The Year in Conferences”—draws on the best practices of the writing classroom to train emerging PhDs in new ways to contribute to a profession that values depth and precision by developing a greater degree of collaboration...

... seriousness; teaching with integrity; relating the subject matter to everyday concerns; and holding all students to high standards. Through classroom anecdotes and descriptions of military life, Corley demonstrates numerous points of connection between military culture and the best instructional practices...

... distract them from research entirely if they did not make specific efforts to stay accountable. During the seminar or dissertation stage, graduate students may be encouraged to figure out which method works best for them and practice staying accountable through that method. In a final...

...Ira James Allen This essay explores intersections between reading and privilege and moves out from a survey of faculty reading practices to consider what is at stake in distinguishing between “real” and “instrumental” reading. Allen argues that, as privileged subjects, teachers can best help...

... really the best means of addressing your question? Is an article or “talk” or monograph the best way to disseminate your research findings? Each of these questions could be answered by literary scholars (or their students) without a substantive change in their research practice...

... Statement on Undergraduate Research in Writing: Principles and Best Practices .” CCCC , March . cccc.ncte.org/cccc/resources/positions/undergraduate-research . Grobman Laurie . 2009 . “ The Student Scholar: (Re)Negotiating Authorship and Authority .” College Composition and Communication 61...

... but are singled out from five departments “identified as having developed highly effective and efficient CI [communications-­intensive] instruction methods — current ‘best practices’ ” (15). Further, they “might follow one another so readers can see the learning trajectory of students as they move from one...

... ) work to refine best practices for film in the latter kinds of classrooms. These best practices with integrating film in composition classrooms often involve using film as an object of rhetorical inquiry (Durst 2015 ), work against the textual bias in composition pedagogy (Lu and Horner 2011 ; Wargo...

... Department. Under this regime, the material concerns of the organization shape interpretive practices. More specifically, an interpretive horizon is established to best facilitate the organization's self-preservation. Institutionalization takes hold at the imaginative level, setting a range of possibilities...

... conversation on the definition of a phi- losophy of teaching, but the articles and other features continue to ask funda- mental questions of best practice and theoretical justification. For instance, Simon Hay opens the issue with a commentary that asks, “Why study lit- erature in such a world [as ours He...

... realities. It is proviso because the task of determining the best practices for teaching theory is far from certain. As educators, we must continue to develop, grow, and reimagine our praxis with an eye on the continually changing modalities of this century. ...

..., professors will be better able to maintain their authority over curricular content. Constructing Our Pedagogical Canons Joan L. Brown Introduction: Taking Control of Our Pedagogical Canons At a time when “best practices,” “outcomes assessment,” and “accountabil- ity” are prime subjects...

... returning (91). If you read Professing and Pedagogy, you will be reminded of incidents in your life as a student and as a teacher some pleasant, some not that you thought you had forgotten. This book will help you to think about your teaching in a way that lists of best practices never could...

... returning (91). If you read Professing and Pedagogy, you will be reminded of incidents in your life as a student and as a teacher some pleasant, some not that you thought you had forgotten. This book will help you to think about your teaching in a way that lists of best practices never could...

... to a number of service-­learning projects and scholarship related to best practices for critical literacy. Julie Prebel is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at Occidental Col- lege, where she teaches a range of writing and cultural studies courses that resonate with her wider critical...

... on the pedagogical benefits of process journals in first-­year composition classrooms. Her experiences living abroad have influ- enced her scholarly interest in cultural rhetorics, particularly the potential for rhetoric to inform pedagogical best practices for pluralist civic education. Phillip Goodwin...

... on Instruction and Assessment in the New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension.” In Comprehension Instruction: Research-Based Best Practice , 2nd ed. , ed. Block Cathy Collins Parris Sherri , 321 – 46 . New York : Guilford Press . Leu Donald J. Kinzer Charles Coiro Julie...