Writing Studio Pedagogy: Space, Place, and Rhetoric in Collaborative Environments [Hardcover]

Writing Studio Pedagogy (WSP) breaks from the tradition of teaching and responding to writing in traditional ways and moves the teaching and learning experience off the page and into engaging spaces in multiple ways, which can enhance the composing process. Through this collection, scholars interested in rethinking approaches to teaching, writing pedagogy, and innovative learning will find new ways to challenge their own understandings of space, place, and collaboration.
WSP involves an attention to space and place in the development of rhetorical acts by focusing on the ways in which they enhance pedagogy.
This book takes a unique opportunity to return to pedagogy as the foremost priority in any learning space. Educators might preference WSP for its emphasis on student-centeredness by creating productive interactions, intersections, and departures that arrive from prioritizing learning. WSP acknowledges the centralized role of students and teachers as co-facilitators in learning and writing. These threads are intentionally broad-based, as the chapters contained in this book speak to the complexity of WSP across institutions.

Matthew Kim, Ph.D., is chair of the English Department at Eagle Hill School, a boarding school for students with learning diversities located in Hardwick, MA. Dr. Kim teaches writing and literature courses to students in grades 8-12.

Russell Carpenter, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity and Associate Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University. He is editor of the Journal of Faculty Development.

Any learner, anytime, anywhere. The writing studio pedagogy as democratic learning is portable and inspiring. The chapters here are focused and applicable, offering many ways to view, incorporate, and learn from the writing studio pedagogy. This text is equally relevant to me as a writing center administrator and instructor, challenging me quite brilliantly to rethink space, placel“¦