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Responsible Pedagogy

Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education
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In recent decades, public higher education has faced perpetual crises. As states slash investment in postsecondary education and for-profit entities seek to supplant public colleges and universities, these public institutions have tried to compete by maximizing efficiency, namely, by relying more on technology and less on the teacher. Responsible Pedagogy makes a fresh case for the importance of public higher education and the work of teaching as valuable in and of themselves. In making this case, Eric Detweiler surveys the history of rhetoric and writing in postsecondary education, looking in particular at the teacher-student relationship. He finds that from the Socratic method to medieval exercises, from MOOCs to remote, asynchronous learning, the balance of authority and agency in the classroom is often precarious. But the problem goes deeper. Underlying both authority and agency is the value of mastery, which the teacher is to impart to the student. It is this emphasis on mastery, Detweiler argues, that distorts the proper relation between the student and teacher, a relationship in which they are responsible for and vulnerable to each other. Drawing on contemporary ethical and rhetorical theory and critiques of practices in the online classroom, Detweiler develops a pedagogy of responsibility and shows how it can be applied in the communication curriculum, assignments, and teacher-student interaction. Rehabilitating the proper role of the teacher, Responsible Pedagogy calls into question our newfound trust in educational technology and points the way to a better, more effective pedagogy.
Eric Detweiler is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Middle Tennessee State University. He runs the podcast Rhetoricity.
"Responsible Pedagogy contributes to interdisciplinary conversations in rhetorical studies and the wider humanities through its methodological interventions as well as its advocacy for necessary changes in teaching practice in writing studies, communication studies, and other fields across the humanities and allied social sciences." -Rosa E. Eberly, author of Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres
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