- Lad Tobin has an admirable dedication to the process theory of Composition pedagogy, but they are also able to recognize that perhaps a combination of theories is optimal. What combinations of pedagogy practices do you adhere to or have experienced during your own teaching, or writing career? Think back on your initial Composition experience as a student in undergraduate to reflect.
- Also taken from Tobin’s “Process Pedagogy,” consider the following explanation given by the writer to a criticism that process theory ignores issues of socialization, authority, and hierarchy: “The criticism of process for promoting a view of writing that was too rigid and that ignored differences of race, class, and gender became an outright rejection of process for its naively positivist notions of language, truth, self, authorship, and individual agency” (15). In what way would you respond to this statement? Do you find process theory to be overly optimistic?
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Questions on Tobin reading - Liz :)
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I find your second question very interesting and while I do not want to undermine Tobin's argument and perspective for its inherent value to pedagogy,I wish he would have engaged with the criticism at a deeper level (though I believe that he was addressed the critique in his book). However, despite the seeming openness of a pedagogy that is motivated by the process theory, I remain sceptical of it success and curious about the challenges its practice would raise. Personally, as a non-native speaker of the English and a person from a post-colonial country, my approach towards the language has always been that of an outsider. Having said that, I do not inhabit the language in a way a native speaker would. This presents its own challenges in expression and imagination. So, what makes me curious is how process theory would accommodate diverse identities, which is something that the essay gives us no clue about.
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