Pedagogy Oct 2021

Welcome to “Failure Club”

Paul Feigenbaum

Abstract

AbstractStudents are more likely to embrace failure in learning when they are intrinsically motivated, but formal education in the United States operates through extrinsic rewards that make failure something to fear and avoid. Accordingly, the author examines the lessons of “Failure Club,” a writing course he designed to challenge this basic pedagogical contradiction.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2021-10-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-9132039
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality race and writing

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (2)

  1. Feigenbaum (2025)
    Listening as Social Action and the Messy Middle of Writing and Rhetoric Pedagogy
    College English
  2. Sánchez (2025)
    Cultivating <i>Phronesis</i> through Wicked Stories
    Pedagogy

Cites in this index (12)

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    In the Absence of Grades: Dissonance and Desire in Course-Contract Classrooms
    College Composition and Communication
  2. Inman (2018)
    Breaking Out of the Basic Writing Closet
    Pedagogy
  3. Kaplan et al. (2018)
    Teaching Required Courses
    Pedagogy
  4. Lotier (2017)
    On Not Following Freire
    Pedagogy
  5. Goldblatt (2017)
    Don’t Call It Expressivism: Legacies of a “Tacit Tradition”
    College Composition and Communication
Show all 12 →
  1. Gross et al. (2016)
    Frameworks for Failure
    Pedagogy
  2. Lotier (2016)
    Around 1986: The Externalization of Cognition and the Emergence of Postprocess …
    College Composition and Communication
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    College English
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    Composition as a Thermostatic Activity
    College Composition and Communication
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