Reason to Believe: Romanticism, Pragmatism, and the Teaching of Writing

by Hephzibah Roskelly and Kate Ronald

Book Overview

Hephzibah Roskelly is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She is the coauthor, with Eleanor Kutz, of An Unquiet Pedagogy: Transforming Practice in the English Classroom. Kate Ronald is Roger and Joyce L. Howe Professor in the Department of English at Miami University. Roskelly and Ronald are also the coeditors of Farther Along: Transforming Dichotomies in Rhetoric and Composition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791437965
• ISBN13: 9780791437964
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Is Teaching Still Possible?

In a beautifully conceived and artfully written essay, Ronald adn Roskelly have retraced the twin forces of American education at its best: pragmatism and romanticism. Their findings are rich with voice, immanence, surprise, and relevance. They write with a sense of teaching so attuned to the rhythms and relationships of real writing classes--and their thinking is so live and lively in that setting, one has to answer their question--"Yes!" Teaching is still possible.