... 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...

... both engaged and educated. They are more involved with their studies and motivated to learn, and their sense of civic and social responsibility increases at the same time they are contributing to a bright future for our nation. National Commission on Service-Learning As a refl ective practitioner, my...

... 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...

... pushback has more complex implications, because it ignores general education s potential to advance democratic citizenship. Fac- ulty expressed resistance to teaching outside their expertise and interests, even if outside really meant in relation to broad civic ideas or themes. At some level, issues...

...” 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...

... 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 a more beautiful and just world. For how do we talk about failure within the public humanities without...

... (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...

... that a history of faculty governance includes this history of contention, that a history of civic insti- tutions is incomplete without this history of immoderate struggle” (578). Our “immoderate” rhetoric might include not accepting our administrations’ characterization of the “crisis” in higher education...

... it not to test results but, rather, to positive dispositions. 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

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... Initiative Portfolio Project Dana Harrington and Anne C. Wheeler In 2017, the Chronicle of Higher Education published data from UCLA s longitudinal study of the views, expectations, and backgrounds of incoming college freshmen. This resource gave readers access to how over fifty years worth of eighteen...

... 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...

... 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...