Connections Between Neuroscience, Rhetoric, and Writing: A Plastic Pedagogy for the Digital Age (Routledge Research in Educational Psychology) - Hardcover

Comstock, Edward J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415791774 ISBN 13: 9780415791779

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This book argues that contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy. Drawing on cutting-edge neuro-philosophy, Comstock re-thinks both historical and current relations between writing and power around questions of affect, attention, and plasticity. In considering the uses and limits of exciting new findings from the neurobiology, this volume both theorizes and offers pedagogical strategies for teaching writing in a digital age characterized by the erosion of wonder and pervasive disaffection. Ultimately, in response to recent critiques transcendental reason and subjectivity, and related calls for the increased inclusion of multi-modal and digital writing and rhetoric, Comstock argues for an embodied pedagogy that values the substantial relations between writing and pedagogical care.

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About the Author

Edward J. Comstock is Senior Professorial Lecturer of Literature at American University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415791774
• ISBN 13: 9780415791779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166