Beyond the Traditional Essay: Increasing Student Agency in a Diverse Classroom with Nondisposable Assignments (Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1648894895 ISBN 13: 9781648894893

Publisher: Vernon Press, 2022

Synopsis

This volume offers a range of responses to the problem of "disposable assignments," essays written just for a grade and then thrown away. The scholars collected here explore how renewable assignments can contribute to public knowledge, eliciting student work that is shared across networks of learning, that does something, that transcends the teacher's grade. Although there is significant interest in such innovative teaching practices, particularly in this year of pedagogical experimentation, there are few resources for teachers that collect in one place both scholarly context and practical advice for implementing renewable assignments in the classroom. The essays in this volume range widely, from demonstrating how digital tools engage and empower reluctant learners, to raising theoretical questions around intellectual property, to measuring the success of renewable assignments through outcomes assessment.

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About the Authors

Dr. Melissa Ryan is a Professor of English at Alfred University, specializing in American literature and Social Justice Studies. Her work has appeared in 'African American Review', 'ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment', 'Studies in the Novel', 'ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance', 'ATQ: American Transcendental Quarterly', 'Studies in American Fiction', and 'American Literature'.

Dr. Kerry Kautzman completed her undergraduate studies at Gannon University, majoring in International Studies before earning her Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati in Spanish Literature. In her two decades at Alfred University, she has taught a wide range of courses in Spanish language and literatures, critical theory, Women's and Gender Studies, and Social Justice Studies. Her current research and teaching interests focus on the literature of Equatorial Guinea.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vernon Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648894895
• ISBN 13: 9781648894893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142
• Editor: Ryan Melissa, Kautzman Kerry