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This is the first scholarly examination of the use of dialogic theory and pedagogy by scholars and teachers of writing. Dialogic methods have become extremely important to many different approaches to pedagogy. However, no one has yet noted that such pedagogies are being espoused by scholars and teachers who have vastly differing theoretical and ideological orientations from one another. Given the fact that the same kind of pedagogy is being proposed by people from such widely differing perspectives, it is time for a substantial reassessment of the use of dialogic pedagogies in literacy education.
Ward's critique of the "democratic" dialogue that expressivists, social constructionists, radical pedagogists, and poststructuralists profess should be read by all compositionists employing collaborative learning in their classrooms. Ward's pedagogy acknowledges and makes room for the differences among students that feminist and social constructionist pedagogies often ignore; it takes into account that social relationships outside the composition classroom can affect the relationships of students within it.
Introduction
Chapter One
Expressivists: Self-Discovery and Internal Dialogue
Dialogic "Helping Circles" and the Search for Truth
Writing as a Discovery of Self
Dialogue with the Other Self
Murray's Dialogic Conference Method
Dialogue and the Teacherless Class
Criterion-Based and Reader-Based Feedback
Sharing and Responding to Writing
Elbow's Internal Dialogues
Elbow's Paradoxical Audience
Internal Dialogics: Manipulating Audience Concepts
Expressivist Dialogics
Chapter Two
Social Constructionism and Dialogism
Social Construction and the Justification of Belief
Marilyn Cooper's Ecological Model
A Social Theory of Rhetoric
Writing Group Theory
Kenneth Bruffee and the "Conversation of Mankind"
Bruffee's Collaborative Pedagogy
Community, Conversation, and the Problem of Authority
Chapter Three
Dialogism and Radical Pedagogy
Liberatory Learning and Critical Consciousness
Freirean Dialogics
Importing Freirean Theory into Composition
The Reflection and Action Dialectic Ignored
Other Liberatory Experiments and Disappointments
The Irony of North American "Liberatory" Pedagogy
Returning the Dialogic to Radical Pedagogy
Chapter Four
Postmodern Views of Discourse and Dialogism
Gregory Ulmer and Applied Grammatology
(En)acting a Postmodern Pedagogy
Toward a Paralogic Rhetoric
Toward a Paralogic Pedagogy
Postmodern Pedagogy and Dialogism
Chapter Five
Toward A Functional Dialogism For Composition
Internal Dialogue: The Unfolding of Self-Knowledge
Internal Dialogic and ''Ideological Becoming"
Dialogism and Peer Criticism
The Role(s) of the Instructor in a Dialogic Writing Class
Incorporating Conflict and Difference into Dialogism
Feminist Epistemology and the Accomodation of Difference
Toward a Comprehensive Dialogism
Works Cited and Consulted
Index