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Composing A Care of the Self : A Critical History of Writing Assessment in Secondary English Education by David Lee Carlson Ed.D., James Albright Ph.D. (auth.), David Lee Carlson Ed.D., James Albright Ph.D. (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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What do Germ Theory, self-psychology, the entrepreneur and the Bertillion Card have in common? They comprise a part of the historical dispositif for the emergence of the writing portfolio. This riveting Foucaultian-inspired genealogy travels through the history of medicine, criminality, psychology, political economics to reveal the epistemologies and practices of power/knowledge of the contemporary portfolio. In so doing, it challenges previous held beliefs about the germination of the secondary school, prevailing views of the dawning of secondary English as a discipline, and most important, the costs and effects of progressivist's writing pedagogies and assessment instruments. Carlson & Albright offer fresh and far-ranging examinations of the rise and development of composition studies and assessment practices in U.S. secondary schools, thereby challenging major English education scholars' long-held interpretations of such. Composing a Care of the Self: A Critical History of Writing Assessment in Secondary English Education posits, for example, an elucidation of the history of writing assessment that I believe is most compelling and original, particularly in its analysis of histor

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Author
David Lee Carlson Ed.D., James Albright Ph.D. (auth.), David Lee Carlson Ed.D., James Albright Ph.D. (eds.)
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9789462090224
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Education, Language Learning

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