In Krista Ratcliffe’s Rhetorical Listening Theory: Identification, Gender, Whiteness, she discusses something called a “dysfunctional silence” which centers around the idea that a silence (of voices in different contexts) is no longer “merely the absence of speaking voice(s); it is also the absence of hearing ears” (85). “Silence” or the absence of voices is something […]
participatory hospitality
Participatory Hospitality and Brave/Safe Spaces in my thoughts about the classroom
What I hold at the core of my beliefs about my classroom and try to bring into my classroom is that it is a place that we create together—I’m kind of pulling from the ideas of a community of practice that I was so entrenched in at my old WC. Writing center scholar, Michele Eodice, […]