What's Up Readers,
I've been reading and catching up on Writing Center Scholarship. All the writings are enlightening of course, but after reading tons of them I started to think about their apparent connections to scholarship today ( don't you just hate it when the committee inside your head starts asking the "so what?" question ). So I took a quick glance of current happenings from the College English Jan 2011 Issue ( Vol 73 Num 3 ), and to my relief, most of the scholarship I've read so far are still relevant today.
The editor highlighted: agency, student-centered, and basic writing. I'm guessing somewhere in the 90s, the focus shifted away from student-centered pedagogy, and basic writing stopped improving. He was concerned that the lack of progress in mastering basic writing today could encourage others to take on an elitist point of view on education in spite of incoming non-traditional students as a result of the GI Bill of 2008.
Some scholars to consider:
-David Bartholomea
-Mina Shaughnessy ( CUNY )
-Pat Belanoff "The Myths of Assessment"
-Shannon Carter "The Way Literacy Lives" ( which discusses "testing" culture, NCLB, transformative pedagogy responsive to historical contexts and diverse students )
NTCE Literacy Education Advocacy Day 2011 on 4/28
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