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ERIC Number: EJ1439156
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Sep
Pages: 28
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-096X
EISSN: EISSN-1939-9006
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Subverting Crisis in the Political Economy of Composition
Tony Scott
College Composition and Communication, v68 n1 p10-37 2016
In an era of normative austerity in US higher education, composition is being transformed by budget cuts, retrenchment, and marketization. Nevertheless, the field’s scholarship continues to compartmentalize questions concerning the material terms of practice away from questions of curricular philosophy. Because composition has not developed a deliberate, sustained inquiry into how scholarship and teaching are being shaped by the perpetual crisis of austerity economics, we are compelled to adopt myopic and reactionary stances toward our work. As a means of subverting composition’s perpetual crisis, Scott advocates disciplinary work that not only imagines new, globally focused, and politically conscious curricula but also actively pursues the creation of the work and learning environments that are necessary for their successful realization.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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