CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Lather
Lather, Patti. “Research as Praxis.” Harvard Education Review 56 (1986): 257-77. The primary goal of this essay is to involve researchers in the democratized process of research that emphasizes negotiation, reciprocity, and empowerment in the interest of the researched subjects – something of a Frierian emancipatory research as practice. The writer draws on feminist, neo-Marxist critical ethnography, and Frierian participatory research to create her research as praxis. Postpostitivist... Read More
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Welsh
Welsh, Susan. “Writing: In and With the World.” College Composition and Communication 46 (1995): 103-07. The author writes against the idea that Bartholomae and Elbow’s writing as an expression of ‘self’ is an adequate description of what is going on in the writing process. The author wonders, What is it that initiates writing, the self or the discursive context? The essay is a meditation on the values of Expressivist pedagogy. “The open writer in the open classroom... Read More
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Salazar
Salazar, C. A Third World Women’s Text: Between the Politics of Criticism and Cultural Politics. In S.B. Gluck and D. Patai, editors, Women’s Word: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. Routledge, NY and London, 1991 The author contends that women’s autobiography has become a central part of the “intellectual, political, and even armed resistance” waged by oppressed people against dominant or hegemonic groups (93). The author hopes to demonstrate how, through... Read More
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Kirsch and Mortensen
Kirsch, Gesa E., and Peter Mortensen. “Toward an Ethics of Research.” Ethical Dilemmas in Feminist Research: The Politics of Location, Interpretation, and Publication. Ed. Gesa E. Kirsch. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. 87-103. The authors aim is to “map out significant problems and opportunities that await researchers who want their inquiries to be a resource for individual and group expressions of self-determination” (87). The authors claim there are a... Read More
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Harris
Harris, Joseph. “From the Editor: The Work of Others.” CCC 45 (1994): 439–41. This piece is a meditation on the new editor of CCCs in 1994 on the ethics involved with citation of student work and other forms of writing. There is an explicit directive in this piece that instructors must “get written permission from any student whose work you wish to include in an article for CCC” (440). In other words, this is the first time that a directive comes directly from the... Read More
