In this article, Robert Tremmel explores the possibility of enriching reflective teaching and
teacher education programs by transcending the limitations imposed by technical and …

Literacy can empower students, but it may also limit their understanding if taught without
regard for the context of their lives. Using his encounters with students, in high school …

Toward Local Teacher-Scholar Communities of Practice: Findings from a National TYCA Survey
Page 1 Toward Local Teacher-Scholar Communities of Practice 247 > Christie Toth and Patrick …

Donnalee Rubin examines the responses of thirty-one freshman composition teachers to
student writing and shows the negative effects of gender bias on assessment to prove that …

The purpose of this study was to replicate and expand on a previous study by Zimmerman
and Bandura (1994). The present study examined the relationships among self-efficacy for …

At the end of his 1987 book The Making of Knowledge in Composition, Stephen North
suggests that the field has gone through two phases. In the first phase," methodological …

Discusses the theory/antitheory debate in the discipline of rhetoric and composition. Urges
refocusing the debate away from the relative value of various modes of inquiry and whether …

It is May as I write this, and about this time of year a sort of recurrent joke circulates among
writing teachers-the one about how much easier our jobs would be if it were not for students …

One of the few things one can say in the field of composition these days and not get any
argument at all is that the preparation beginningTAs receive before they teach the first-year …

Professional educational philosophers CA Bowers and DJ Flinders (1990) describe the
classroom as an ecology comprising interrelated linguistic and cultural patterns that …