The Managerial Unconscious in the History of Composition Studies:
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Main Author: Strickland, Donna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 2011
Series:Studies in writing & rhetoric
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Description based upon print version of record. - Other Books in the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric SeriesBack Cover
Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Composition Studies' Managerial Unconscious; 1. The Emergence of Writing Programs and the Cultural Work of Composition Teaching; 2. Teaching Subjects: Professionalism and the Discourse of Disorder; 3. You Say You Want a Revolution? Managed Universities, Managerial Affects; 4. Democratic Pedagogies and the Persistence of Control; Afterword: Tweaking It-Toward Operative Managerial Reason in Composition Studies; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Author Biography; CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric
In this pointed appraisal of composition studies, Donna Strickland contends the rise of writing program administration is crucial to understanding the history of the field. Noting existing histories of composition studies that offer little to no exploration of administration, Strickland argues the field suffers from a "managerial unconscious" that ignores or denies the dependence of the teaching of writing on administrative structures. The Managerial Unconscious in the History of Composition Studies is the first book to address the history of composition studies as a profession rather than foc
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-142) and index
Physical Description:169 p.
ISBN:1336153881
9781336153882
9780809390953
0809390957

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