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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974879403321

Titolo

Ecocomposition : theoretical and pedagogical approaches / / edited by Christian R. Weisser and Sidney I. Dobrin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2001

ISBN

9780791490846

079149084X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xviii, 300 p

Altri autori (Persone)

WeisserChristian R. <1970->

DobrinSidney I. <1967->

Disciplina

808/.042/071

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Natural history - Authorship - Study and teaching

Environmental literature - Authorship - Study and teaching

Ecology - Authorship - Study and teaching

Interdisciplinary approach in education

Academic writing - Study and teaching

Nature study

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Ecocomposition -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: The Truth Is Out There -- Breaking New Ground in Ecocomposition: An Introduction -- Writing Takes Place -- Sustainable Composition -- Ecology, Alienation, and Literacy: Constraints and Possibilities in Ecocomposition -- The Politics of Place: Student Travelers and Pedagogical Maps -- The Ecology of Genre -- Ecocomposition and the Greening of Identity -- Great Divides: Rhetorics of Literacy and Orality -- The Wilderness Strikes Back: Decolonizing the Imperial Sign in the Borderlands -- Education and Environmental Literacy: Reflections on Teaching Ecocomposition in Keene State College's Environmental House -- The Liberatory Positioning of Place in Ecocomposition: Reconsidering Paulo Freire -- Ecofeminism and Ecocomposition :Pedagogies, Perspectives, and Intersections -- Ecology and Composition Studies: A Feminist Perspective on Living Relationships -- The Ecology of Writerly Voice  



Authorship, Ethos, and Persona -- Service Learning and Ecocomposition: Developing Sustainable Practices through Inter and Extradisciplinarity -- Restoring Bioregions Through Applied Composition -- "Written In Its Own Season": Nature as Ground in the Postmodern World -- Don't Forget to Argue: Problems, Possibilities, and Ecocomposition -- Writing Home: Composition, Campus Ecology, and Webbed Environments -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the intersections between writing and ecological studies.