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Publication Date: 2024
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Pseudocommunity as a Limitation in Antiracist Faculty Professional Development
Mara Lee Grayson
Composition Studies, v52 n1 p26-46 2024
This article explores how the racialized discursive and behavioral norms of pseudocommunity interfere with faculty professional development toward antiracist writing pedagogy. The author draws upon original research into a faculty learning community of first year composition instructors to highlight how, without explicit acknowledgment and interrogation, antiracist initiatives meant to encourage collaboration, equitable exchange, and professional learning may reproduce the white pseudocommunity dynamics that prevail in writing programs. This essay contributes to the growing body of literature on antiracist pedagogy and writing program administration by emphasizing the necessity of deep consideration of contextual interpersonal aspects of racism and white supremacy that may go unnoticed or unacknowledged by administrators and instructors.
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Racism, Social Justice, Writing Instruction, Program Administration, Writing Teachers, Interpersonal Relationship
Composition Studies. Available from: English Department, UMass Boston. 100 William T. Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125; e-mail: compstudiesjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://compstudiesjournal.com/
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