In our call for Blog Carnival 24: Multimodality, Social Justice, and Human-Centered Praxis, we sought contributions that leverage multimodal frameworks to foster social justice and center human experiences across lines of difference. We were impressed by the number of scholars, teachers, writing center tutors, program administrators, and practitioners who engage in justice work through their teaching, tutoring, leadership, and scholarly practices across diverse areas and contexts. At a contentious time marked by challenges to the very values and commitments that have sustained our field, this turnout is both heartening and galvanizing; it reaffirms that our community remains steadfast in putting…
Author: Thais Rodrigues Cons
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Thais Rodrigues Cons is a PhD student in Rhetoric & Composition at the University of Arizona, where she currently works as a Writing Across the Curriculum graduate associate. Her research interests include Technical and Professional Writing, Critical Digital Literacies, Multilingual Writing & Identity, and Writing Centers.
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative’s Syllabus Repository and Teaching and Learning Materials collections are peer-contributed resources dedicated to providing open-source pedagogical artifacts. Beyond digital archives, we view these two repositories as possible mentoring texts and formative models that could inspire instructors in the current moment. In this call, we ask educators from across the disciplines to share syllabi and other course materials which center social justice-oriented pedagogies, including themes such as anti-racism, equity, inclusion, and more. By curating these resources, our aim is to provide alternative pathways for scholars to share pedagogical strategies that actively challenge systemic inequities. As PhD…
In our recent intergenerational interview with the founding, former, and current editors of Computers and Composition for the journal’s forthcoming 40th Anniversary Special Issue, Drs. Cindy Selfe, Kristine Blair, and Jason Tham emphasized that the current moment calls for renewed attention to two areas the field has yet to fully address: multimodality and social justice. There is an urgent need to center human experience and address issues of access, equity, inclusion, and diversity through our teaching practices, pedagogical innovations, and collective research efforts. Multimodality holds considerable potential to advance these goals, enacting a human-centered approach to composition while addressing social-justice-related…
This year as a continuing DRC Fellow, I decided to create a video-based, multimodal introduction. If you want to read my first introduction that has my chronological history with digital platforms and technologies you can read it at this link.