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Learning and Transformation: How Students and Teachers Define and Shape Each Other in the Classroom and in Pedagogic Literature

Borczon, John A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1281702494

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2010, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
This dissertation explores the relationship between the personal and the political in the composition classroom by examining the writing of three pedagogic theorists: Lad Tobin, Ira Shor, and bell hooks. The research focuses on a rhetorical examination of specific texts in order to surface dissonances and reinforcements between theory, practice, and writing style. The researcher also proposes the concept of the oblique rhetorical challenge as a way to introduce strong political perspectives into a rhetoric and composition classroom in a fashion that navigates around the pitfalls of two more common positions concerning political arguments and the classroom: one holds that all highly charged political perspectives should be kept out of the classroom in order to protect students and the opposite view holds that the teacher's political views should be out in front in order to protect students.
Mara Holt (Advisor)
Sherrie Gradin (Committee Member)
Albert Rouzie (Committee Member)
Benjamin Bates (Committee Member)
193 p.
English literature
rhetoric; composition; pedagogy; politics

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  • Borczon, J. A. (2010). Learning and Transformation: How Students and Teachers Define and Shape Each Other in the Classroom and in Pedagogic Literature [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1281702494

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Borczon, John. Learning and Transformation: How Students and Teachers Define and Shape Each Other in the Classroom and in Pedagogic Literature. 2010. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1281702494.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Borczon, John. "Learning and Transformation: How Students and Teachers Define and Shape Each Other in the Classroom and in Pedagogic Literature." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1281702494

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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