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Book SynopsisEngagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these shiftsaddressing more expansive understandings of where, how, and with whom we research, teach, and partner. This book examines these shifts, locating them within socio-economic trends within and beyond the higher educational landscape, with particular focus on how they have been enacted within the diverse subfields of writing studies. In so doing, this book provides concrete models for enacting these new responsive practices, thereby encouraging scholars to examine how they can facilitate writing for social action through taking positions, building relationships, and crossing boundaries.
Trade ReviewI foresee scholars in rhetoric and composition drawing on these essays in their scholarship, particularly those working on issues of community literacy and community-engaged writing projects. -- Scott Andrew Wible, University of Maryland
Table of ContentsIntroduction Mary P. Sheridan Section 1: Taking Positions 1. Taking Action in the Age of Reaction: Constructing Architectures of Participation Linda Adler-Kassner 2. Engage, Respond, Advocate: Copyright in Context Dànielle DeVoss 3. The Figured Worlds of Digital Mediation in Schools Rachel Gramer 4. Witnessing Learning: Building Relationships between Past, Present, and Future Selves Bump Halbritter and Julie Lindquist 5. Imagining Pedagogical Engagement: On the Rhetorical Limits of Vulnerability Kellie Sharp-Hoskins 6. Police Use-of-Force Policy: Engagement and the Mediation/Negotiation of Responsibility in a Public Institutional Genre Michael Knievel 7. From Public Writing to Writing-in-Common: Community Literacy after the Public Sphere Stephen Schneider Afterword for Section 1: Taking Positions Drew Holladay Section 2: Building Relationships 8. The Rhetoric of Outrage: Responding through Memoir and Public History Shannon Carter and Donna Dunbar-Odom 9. Remixed Literacies and Radical Cooperation at Play in a Youth-Directed Media Project Londie T. Martin and Adela C. Licona 10. Enacting Confianza: Responsive Community Literacy Learning Research in Mexington, Kentucky Steven Alvarez 11. From the Center to the Sidelines: Responsive Leadership in a High School-College Writing Partnership Heather Lindenman 12. The SISTA Project: Literacy Outreach in Response to Community Needs David A. Jolliffe, Julia Paganelli-Martin, Daniele Cunningham, and Shiloh Peters Afterword for Section 2: Building Relationships Megan Faver Hartline Section 3: Crossing Boundaries 13. Writing, Democracy, Activism: Palestine, Israel, and Community Publishing Steve Parks 14. Carceral Windows and the Promise of Literacy Patrick W. Berry 15. Habitus, Disposition, and Disruption in MOOCs: Developing Responsive Pedagogy at Scale Ben McCorkle, Cynthia L. Selfe, Kaitlin Clinnin, and Kay Halasek 16. Meeting Students Where They Are: Practicing Responsive Pedagogy Kaitlin Clinnin, Kay Halasek, Ben McCorkle, and Cynthia L. Selfe 17. Refugee Literacy Learning and Liminal Belonging: A Neoliberal Context of Diversity Stephanie Rae Larson 18. “Responsive Understanding” and Receptivity to Global Writing Research Christiane Donahue Afterword for Section 3: Crossing Boundaries Megan J. Bardolph
