Call and Response: Toward an Ecological View of Teacher Response.

摘要

In Call and Response: Toward an Ecological View of Teacher Response, I argue that the changing demographics of students in higher education and the shifting rhetorical landscape push writing teachers to rethink how they respond to student writing. An increasing numbers of nontraditional students in higher education and an increase in digital communication change how writing happens in college classrooms. A new emphasis on the situated nature of writing necessitates a shift in how we view teacher response. I explore three conflicts---one in an online environment, another with a student whose prose was inflected with elements of African American Vernacular English, and the last with an adult student with whom I had to rethink the purpose of writing---and suggest that thinking of writing in an ecological sense helps writing teachers approach response differently, making response theory consonant with contemporary situated theoretical paradigms.