"Discipline and Punish" and Process Paradigms (or Foucault, Visibility, (Dis)Empowerment, and the Construction of Composition Studies).

Heilker, Paul

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ERIC Number: EJ483246

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Publication Date: 1994

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"Discipline and Punish" and Process Paradigms (or Foucault, Visibility, (Dis)Empowerment, and the Construction of Composition Studies).

Heilker, Paul

Composition Studies/Freshman English News, v22 n1 p4-13 Spr 1994

Questions the ability of composition studies to empower students to resist authority. Analyzes the recent paradigm shifts within composition studies from a perspective informed by Michel Foucault. Discusses classroom design, process pedagogies, and the construction of the field of composition as bringing increased student visibility. (HB)

Descriptors: Classroom Design, College English, English Instruction, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Skills

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