by Shirley Kahlert | Mar 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Student success in writing classes often depends on students’ time managment skills. When students fail to turn work in, teachers often feel helpless and frustrated because they are unable to explain or justify this self-destructive behavior. I think it’s... 
by Shirley Kahlert | Mar 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
In my mind, it’s never a bad idea to return to Freire’s ideas of liberatory pedagogy: The oppressed suffer from the duality which has established itself in their innermost being. They discover that without freedom they cannot exist authentically. Yet,... 
by Shirley Kahlert | Feb 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Insanity, the cliché goes, is doing the same thing over and expecting different results. A quick survey of recently published college writing texts shows that little has changed in the approach of the profession: writing instructors demand a clear, well-organized,...