The penultimate week of classes

As we approach the end of this spring semester I realize how much I'm looking forward to reading within the spheres of rhet-comp that I find most compelling. I'm envious of Ben and Tim's future in the fall and am stoked to hear from them what the experience is like. In the meantime, I think this forum will be a really cool space to test out ideas and see what seems to take hold and what doesn't. As an extension of the discussions that Ben and I have in person, I'm just stoked to have a place to bring and unravel these thoughts and notions. I think it's likely that we'll all be bringing our own diverse backgrounds and out approaches will be idiosyncratic and unique, and were that not the case I think we'd learn less. Allright - enough bluster from me. Here's Shor in 1997 interview with Graff in JAC. So I have to be honest and say that I'm more unsure than comfortable with some critical pedagogy, only in the sense that I don't know if it work for me. What Shor posits here though I find really strong:

"Here's what I have in mind: instead of this vast, subordinated enterprise called "freshman comp," we would recover writing as a rhetorical and social act of making meaning, constructing the self in society, producing culture. Concretely, when students come to campus, their writing requirement is to affiliate with a project."