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January 30, 2005
Pondering a Project
So, last semester Prof Howard and I were casually kicking around some ideas of what I might do in this class. Right now, I must confess I'm still a little bit hazy. However, there has been one idea that I seem to keep coming back to.
Coming from and Education background, I have an interest in critical pedagogy. And, as I was browsing through Susan Kates' book on activist rhetorics, I was excited to see some work being done to create a historical trajectory for crit ped. I'm wondering if there is some way I can add to this field. How would I contribute something of value without covering what has already been done elsewhere? I guess this is what makes me a tad uneasy; I don't want to take on something this is 1. Vague or 2. So overwhelming I couldn't handle it.
This semester I'm doing an independent study in which I'm looking at the intersection of critical pedagogy and whiteness studies (sort of a critical whiteness studies). Maybe there's a framework I could apply specifically to rhet/comp.
Okay, thanks for letting me think out loud. I'm sure I'll come back and refine this more as I go along.
-J
Posted by jwthom01 at January 30, 2005 06:34 PM
Comments
Nobody has, to my knowledge, published a history of critical pedagogy in composition. Is this something you'd be interested in doing? You might approach it synchronically, taking a contained slice of time and looking at what was being done in composition vs. what was being done in the larger field of critical pedagogy. Or you could do an historical analysis of the work of a selected critical pedagogue(s) in composition. Or you could look at critical pedagogy in composition chronologically, choosing some representative works from various periods. There's a bibliography where you might find some useful sources.
Posted by: senioritis at February 6, 2005 04:51 PM