Working Boundaries: From Student Resistance to Student Agency

Bookmarked: Working Boundaries: From Student Resistance to Student Agency

http://jgregorymcverry.com/readings/workingboundaries.pdf

#agency #writing

Trainor, on the other hand, retains a stronger commitment to critical pedagogy's core concerns and contends that student resistance stems not from instructors' unethical commitment to those concerns but from teachers' inadequate attention to how critical pedagogy positions students as readers and writers. She argues that to avoid generating student resistance, "we need to be more aware of the rhetorical frames our pedagogies provide for students as they structure identity"

he answer to student resistance is to develop strategies that create mutuality between teachers and students and so support students' agency in interpreting texts and developing arguments. The most liberatory teacher, they hold, can inadvertently "reproduce traditional teacher student relations"

I think we need to move the needle away from argument

). The measure of this transformation is how extensively students and teachers share authority in directing classroom discourse and in constructing knowledge within the course

technology complicates this as new modes and tools must be tried....

Discourse seems to be the only path to mutuality in the piece. Little attention paid to the art the students create. I wonder if just being yourself online is a sense of agency or conversely if the low self-efficacy with tech hurts agency enough that we do not see knowledge gains.