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Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom ---And What Instructors Can Do about Them

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ISBN-10: 0867095415

ISBN-13: 9780867095418

Edition: 2003

Authors: Dawn Skorczewski, Matthew Parfitt

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Classroom crises challenge all writing instructors, especially when they are new to the field. But even an old pro's resources can be stretched thin when race or gender becomes an issue or, more insidiously, when a difficult student undermines the course, questions professorial authority, orworst of allcreates an atmosphere of distrust and dislike. Situations like these can derail a semester, but they also can encourage a reexamination of composition theory and a reinvention of classroom practice. Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom takes you inside 17 real-life composition classrooms and explores how you can defuse potentially explosive situations and reinvigorate your…    
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Book details

List price: $41.20
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 3/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.99" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Dawn Skorczewski is Assistant Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing, and Director of Composition at Emerson College. She has recently completed Teaching Writing One Moment at a Time, a book that explores intersections between infant research, psychoanalytic theory, and the teaching of writing, and has published articles on composition and on representations of father-daughter incest in poetry.

Matthew Parfitt is Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities and Rhetoric at the College of General Studies, Boston University. He has been teaching composition for over ten years, and has published work on composition, interpretation theory, and the literature of the First World War. He is coeditor of Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past.

Introduction
The Uses of Resistance
The Chattering of Timothy Strossmeyer, or Discipline and the Oppressed
The Angry Student with the C+
Wielding Authority in a Nonauthoritarian Classroom
The Unwelcome Rhetor in Our Midst
When Underlife Takes Over: An Insight on Student Resistance and Classroom Dynamics
"Is It My Problem if They Can't Keep up with Me?": Ball Hogs, Point Guards, and Student Participation in the Composition Classroom
Race, Class, and the Language of Schooling
White Indian Up Front: Building Learning Communities in the "Postcolonial"/Indigenized Classroom
Detecting the Camouflaged Conflicts: Blackness, Whiteness, and Language Difference in Basic Writing Courses
"What's the Point?"
Pedagogy and Apocalypse: How to Have a Productive Discussion in the Context of a Race Riot
Race in Class: Students, Teaching, and Stories
The One Who Got Away: Reflections on a Teacher's Remorse
Course Design and Assignments
"Some People Just Don't Write Well": Composing and Grading Amid Conflict in the Classroom
How Not to Lead a Class Discussion
Teaching Without Armor
Plagiarism Might Go Away if We Don't Talk about It
Room for "Us" to Play: The Teacher as Midwife
Afterword: Difficulty for Whom?: Teachers' Discourse About Difficult Students
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