Rescuing Community [microform] : Sociality and Cohesion in Writing Groups / David Foster
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- Foster, David
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995
- 21 p.
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Group strategies--group discussion, feedback, collaboration--seem so widely used in postsecondary writing as to have attained the status of lore. In seeking pedagogical community, writing teachers too often gloss over or deny the reality of competing voices. To understand the traditional appeal of the trope "community" for American educational institutions, it must be noted how tightly, in forming the trope, the ideology of democracy is yoked to the belief in cohesion through education. Historical studies of national literacy movements have amply shown that universal schooling is the most important underlying mechanism by which modern societies seek to create social cohesion. However, because discourse is power, membership in a discourse community confers power and privilege. Some are included, some are left out, unvoiced and disempowered. One of postmodernism's clearest tenets is the power of discourse to enact hegemony, to insist upon acquiescence to the dominant discourses of a culture and to exclude voices that are different or other. Various efforts have been made to rescue the idea of community in the classroom in a postmodern age, most notably by Kenneth Bruffee and David Bleich. Also, feminists such as Carol Gilligan and Mary Belenky, similarly, have suggested dialogic pedagogy of collaboration intended as an alternative to a more oppositional, argumentative model. However, these theorists do not adequately discuss the sources and nature of the cohesion that could keep classroom groups functioning while preserving diversity. This is a fundamental question that theorists must address--how can students in a pluralistic classroom be motivated to form a cohesive whole? (Contains 5 notes and 19 references.) (TB)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (46th, Washington, DC, March 23-25, 1995).
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