ERIC Number: EJ1196521
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
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Maintaining a Humanistic Center: Rhetorical Humanism as a Holistic Framework for Writing Programs
Belk, John
Composition Forum, v40 Fall 2018
This profile describes how the Writing Program at Southern Utah University enacts a rhetorical humanist framework in its administrative and curricular structures. At the administrative level, rhetorical humanism offers a collaborative governance model that gives all faculty a voice in programmatic decisions, while managing the cacophony created by those voices. At the curricular level, rhetorical humanism balances the benefits and critiques of traditional humanism with outward-facing social constructionist writing pedagogies of the last few decades.
Descriptors: Humanism, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Profiles, Universities, Governance, Participative Decision Making, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, College Administration, Criticism, Program Descriptions, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, Academic Discourse, Writing Assignments, Undergraduate Students, English Instruction
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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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Identifiers - Location: Utah
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