This book argues that contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy. Drawing on cutting-edge neuro-philosophy, Comstock re-thinks both historical and current relations between writing and power around questions of affect, attention, and plasticity. In considering the uses and limits of exciting new findings from the neurobiology, this volume both theorizes and offers pedagogical strategies for teaching writing in a digital age characterized by the erosion of wonder and pervasive disaffection. Ultimately, in response to recent critiques transcendental reason and subjectivity, and related calls for the increased inclusion of multi-modal and digital writing and rhetoric, Comstock argues for an embodied pedagogy that values the substantial relations between writing and pedagogical care.
ISBN: | 9780367432973 |
Publication date: | 31st March 2021 |
Author: | Edward J. Comstock |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 166 pages |
Series: | Routledge Research in Educational Psychology |
Genres: |
Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints Cognition and cognitive psychology Communication studies Educational strategies and policy Teaching of students with different educational needs Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology Educational psychology Philosophy and theory of education |