critical pedagogy, organic writing, and the changing nature of scholarship
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Using critical pedagogy as the foundation for their work in hybrid and fully-digital environments, Jesse Stommel (Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at University of Wisconsin-Madison; @Jessifer) and Pete Rorabaugh (Assistant Professor of English in the English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts Department at Southern Polytechnic State University; @allistelling) explore how academic writing and scholarship are changing from within and without. Pete discusses the practice of Organic Writing and how the affordances of digital environments allow us to explore how to teach writing as a creative and critical thinking process. Jesse focuses on the ways that new-form multimodal scholarship upsets the distinction between academic writing and public outreach.TRANSCRIPT
“Unless the mass of workers are to be blind cogs and pinions in the apparatus they employ, they must have some understanding of the
physical and social facts behind and ahead of the material and appliances with which they are dealing.”
John Dewey, Schools of To-Morrow
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Critical Pedagogy, Organic Writing, and the Changing Nature of Scholarship
Pete Rorabaugh (@allistelling) and Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer)
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The “critical” in critical pedagogy functions in several registers:
• Critical, as in mission-critical, essential;• Critical, as in literary criticism and critique, providing definitions and
interpretation; • Critical, as in a reflective and nuanced approach to a thing;• Critical, as in criticizing institutional or corporate impediments to learning;• Critical Pedagogy, as a disciplinary approach, which inflects (and is inflected
by) each of these other meanings.
Critical pedagogy is not ideologically neutral.
Critical pedagogy is emergent.
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Critical pedagogy interrogates power hierarchies.
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Critical Pedagogy is praxis, the intersection of philosophy and practice
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“Everybody is an intellectual in that we all have the capacity to think, produce ideas, be self-critical . . . [This] demands a new kind kind of literacy and critical understanding with respect to the emergence of the new media and electronic technologies, and the new and powerful role they play as instruments of public pedagogy.”
~ Henry Giroux, On Critical Pedagogy
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Organic Writing
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“The act of writing is organic and generative . . . Digital environments maximize the potential for organic writing in three distinct ways: they rebuild “audience,” expose the organic layers of a composition, and invite outside participation in key stages along the way.”
~ Pete Rorabaugh, Organic Writing and Digital Media: Seeds and Organs
Author Cycles
Assignment Cycles
Media Cycles
Conversation Cycles
Connectivist Composition and Rhizomatic Learning
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all learning is necessarily hybrid
Hybrid Pedagogy is an open-access journal that: is not ideologically neutral;: connects discussions of critical pedagogy, digital pedagogy, and online pedagogy;: brings higher education and K-12 teachers into conversation with the e-learning and open education communities;: considers our personal and professional hybridity;: disrupts distinctions between students, teachers, and learners;: explores the relationship between pedagogy and scholarship;: invites its audience to participate in (and be an integral part of) the peer review process;: and thus interrogates (and makes transparent) academic publishing practices.
“The commitment to learners, to their exploration, their community, their authentic engagement, and their ultimate agency and
empowerment, governs our work.”~ Pete Rorabaugh, Occupy the Digital: Critical Pedagogy and New Media
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“To listen for voices that have something to say, but which may not find purchase in traditional academic venues.”
~ Sean Michael Morris, Collaborative Peer Review: Gathering the Academy’s Orphans
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“What is the place for a student in a discussion about learning in the digital landscape?”
~ Matthew David Morris, A Letter from a Hybrid Student
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“Play constitutes a new form of critical inquiry.”~ Adeline Koh, The Political Power of Play
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“In digital space, everything we do is networked. Real thinking doesn’t (and can’t) happen in a vacuum.”
~ Pete Rorabaugh and Jesse Stommel, The Four Noble Virtues of Digital Media Citation
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“I believe generosity is what will drive the future of digital publishing.”~ Jesse Stommel A Scholarship of Generosity: New-form Publishing and Hybrid Pedagogy.
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What is the future of academic writing?
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