This essay examines the current state of online writing instruction in light of changing technologies and everyday literacies in order to understand their impact on access to higher education and on the material conditions of teaching writing.

This essay explores the underlying dynamics that inform postsecondary English teacher development efforts. In particular, it argues for a more expansive understanding of “context” in order to emphasize the inevitability of conflict and the productive potential of surfacing the meaningful contextual differences of our teaching lives. Such differences include varying philosophies of teaching and learning, competing motivations and expectations for participation in teacher development, and differing institutional teaching contexts where very different values might inhere. The essay offers strategies for engaging such differences with a view toward discerning collective (as well as individual) commitments. Such an orientation toward teacher development is crucial in the current climate, where plans for reform increasingly locate the work of remaking higher education outside of postsecondary classrooms. The kind of postsecondary teacher development work this essay calls for, then, seeks to support teachers' growth as agents of educational change.

Research Article| October 01 2003 Graduate Education As Education: The Pedagogical Arts of Institutional Critique Virginia Crisco; Virginia Crisco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chris W. Gallagher; Chris W. Gallagher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Deborah Minter; Deborah Minter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Katie Hupp Stahlnecker; Katie Hupp Stahlnecker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google John Talbird John Talbird Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pedagogy (2003) 3 (3): 359–376. https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-3-3-359 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Virginia Crisco, Chris W. Gallagher, Deborah Minter, Katie Hupp Stahlnecker, John Talbird; Graduate Education As Education: The Pedagogical Arts of Institutional Critique. Pedagogy 1 October 2003; 3 (3): 359–376. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-3-3-359 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsPedagogy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2003 Duke University Press2003 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.