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Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric) by David L. Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom, David L. Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald point out the centrality of rhetoric in the academy, asserting the intimate connection between language and knowledge making. They also stress the need for a change in the roles of teachers and students in today’s classroom. Their goal is mutuality, a sharing of authority among teachers and students in the classroom that would allow everyone an equal voice in the communication of ideas. Arguing that the impetus to empower students by engaging them in liberatory and emancipatory pedagogies is simply not enough, Wallace and Ewald seek to help readers identify, theorize, and work through problems faced by teachers who already value alternative approaches but who are struggling to implement them in the classroom." It is not the teacher’s job merely to convey a received body of knowledge, nor is knowledge a prepackaged commodity to be delivered by the teacher. It is constituted in the classroom through the dialogic interaction between teachers and students alike.” Wallace and Ewald see mutuality as potentially transformative, but they do not believe that the natur

Who reads Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)?

Author

David L. Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press, P.O. Box 3697, Carbondale, IL 62902-3697 ($14.95). Tel: 618-453-6633; Web site: http://www.siu.edu/~siupress

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809390960

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Education, Literary Fiction