Rhetoric Review Jan 2003

Pledge-A-Brick: A Farewell to Adjunct Teaching

Anonymous/Joy Klein

Abstract

Abstract The material conditions in which most writing classes are taught-by an adjunct, who has little or no job security, is poorly compensated, and is isolated from colleagues-cannot be conceptualized as merely an "adjunct problem." This so-called "adjunct problem" cannot be separated from the ethics of the university and its faculty, from the principles of the discipline and its pedagogies, or from the responsibility of this particular adjunct and her future career decisions.

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Rhetoric Review
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2003-01-01
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10.1207/s15327981rr2201_5
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writing pedagogy teacher development labor and working conditions
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