In Tobin's "Process Pedagogy," he writes that the regimentation of process pedagogy has "most to do with the quirks of some individual teachers and the nature of textbook business than with some inherent flaw in the process approach." But how did just a few authoritarian teachers infect the entire department? And whose fault is it if the textbook business is now choosing how the department is run?
Bartholomae states, "The most surprising thing I have noticed as I travel and monitor the development of composition...is the consistency, virulence, and direction of the attack on composition and those in it. [...] It is faculty in English attacking composition programs on ideological grounds." Of course the STEM programs and social sciences don't have as much of an opinion on how to teach students to write. It makes perfect sense that the program that would have the most ideological qualms, or qualms at all, with composition programs would be the English department. So I'm not quite sure why Bartholomae is surprised by this?
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