... accounts of subjectivity that I have yet experienced in the classroom. I believed that life writing was central to a civic education because when students learn that autobiographical writing is shaped by literary and generic choices, they come to realize that so is the writing of collective histories...

... 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...

...., Barbara Holland, Amy Driscoll, Amy Spring, and Seanna Keerigan. 2001 . Assessing Service-Learning and Civic Engagement: Principles and Techniques . Providence, RI:Campus Compact. Godfrey, Paul C. 1999 . “Service-Learning and Management Education.” Journal of Management Inquiry 8 : 363 -78...

... analysis matters, even when I don t want it to. There are ways we can make general education more appealing to students, respect professorial knowledge and interests, and address an even more pro- found climate change in the nature of the civic sphere. As needs no rehearsing by me, we live...

... Engagement 167 work of the activist groups in educating students about issues and deepened students civic engagement as they considered issues of injustice and social action in more depth. For example, students in HEAT, the environmental justice group, wrote on aspects such as plastics in the oceans...

...” Wineburg et al. ( 2016 ) reported on a study of 7,804 responses from students in middle school through college in twelve states conducted by the Stanford History Education Group, which sought to gauge students’ capacity for “civic online reasoning.” The researchers summarized the goals of the study...

... humanities programs off the ground. Surely talking about failure is always risky, but the stakes of doing so seem especially heightened from within a discourse or sphere that prioritizes meaningful engagement with the world and boldly sounds the battle cry, once more, for civic education to help create...

... (91). The civic model embraces goals that promote the com- mon good of community members and is governed by democratic means that call the majority to rule. Herein lies the threat to education s core mission, the quest for truth, for truth is not determined by democratic means (92). He says...

... liberal arts education in the name of academic excellence, and in which we are enjoined for the sake of civility to hold our tongues while actual space for civil discourse and civic decision-­making contracts. — Nancy Welch, “La Langue de Coton: How Neoliberal Rhetoric Pulls the Wool over Faculty...

.... Linking habits of mind to civic and ethical agency evokes a venerable tradition in composition studies and American educational philosophy more broadly. Specifically, the phrasehabits of mind comes from the American pragmatists and notably from the work of John Dewey, who, in Democracy...

... of and investments in public scholarship. “Public humanities” represented one organizing thread interwoven with others: civic engagement, community-­ Bartha and Burgett    Why Public Scholarship Matters for Graduate Education  33 based learning, participatory action research, arts-­based collaboration...

... Contributors  565 Troy Hicks is an assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University and focuses on the teaching of writing; writing across the curriculum; literacy and technology; and teacher education and professional development. In his research, he collaborates with K – 12 teachers...

... 2009 Contributors Rachelle Ankney is assistant professor of mathematics at North Park Univer- sity in Chicago. In her general education classes, she explores how service learning and social justice topics can help students learn mathematics...

... countercultural politics on composition studies appeared in College English and JAC. She has also published on the scholarship of teaching in the Journal of Developmental Education and in Excellence in Teaching: Narratives from Award-Winning Faculty (forthcoming, 2017). Joyce Olewski Inman is assistant...

... 4 : 72 -80. Daigre, Eric. 2000 . “Toward a Critical Service-Learning Pedagogy: A Freierean Approach to Civic Literacy.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 4 : 6 -13. Dewey, John. 1964 . John Dewey on Education: Selected Writings , ed. Reginald D. Archambault. New York: Modern Library...

... different profiles of students.2 This means that required general education classes, such as College Writing 1, are typically populated by students with a wide range of academic abilities and interest in writing. Our decision to focus one of our portfolio- based assignment sequences on civic literacy...

... York Press. Britzman, Deborah P. 1991 . Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach . Albany: State University of New York Press. Bruner, Jerome. 1960 . The Process of Education . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ———. 1966 . Toward a Theory of Instruction...

... Press. Britzman, Deborah P. 1991 . Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach . Albany: State University of New York Press. Bruner, Jerome. 1960 . The Process of Education . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ———. 1966 . Toward a Theory of Instruction...

... Press. Britzman, Deborah P. 1991 . Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach . Albany: State University of New York Press. Bruner, Jerome. 1960 . The Process of Education . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ———. 1966 . Toward a Theory of Instruction...

... of New York Press. Britzman, Deborah P. 1991 . Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach . Albany: State University of New York Press. Bruner, Jerome. 1960 . The Process of Education . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ———. 1966 . Toward a Theory...