Richards, Daniel P., editorUtah State University Press, publisher2020-12-142020-12-142020https://hdl.handle.net/10217/218261Includes bibliographical references and index.Explores the ramifications of overly-theoretical ideological arguments about teacher neutrality in higher education. Focuses on this contentious concept, emphasizing practical possibilities and impossibilities of neutrality in the teaching of writing, the deployment of neutrality as a political motif in public discourse shaping policy, and performativity of individual instructors.--Provided by publisher.Introduction: the politics, praxis, and performativity of teacher neutrality / Daniel P. Richards -- The limits of neutrality: how new graduate instructors negotiate politics, race, and ideology in the composition classroom / Meaghan Brewer -- Living in contradiction: translingual writing pedagogies and the two-year college / Jason C. Evans -- Walking the narrow ridge: when performing neutrality isn't an option in the vocation of the Christian professor / Jessica Clements -- Contingent faculty, student evaluation, and pedagogical neutrality / Robert Samuels -- The non-controversy and controversy of neutrality: a conversation with John Trimbur / Daniel P. Richards -- Strangers on their own campus: listening across difference in qualitative research / Kelly Blewett, with Tyler S. -- Believing critically: teaching critical thinking through the conversion narrative / Christopher Michael Brown -- Ideology through process and slow-start pedagogy: co-constructing the path of least resistance in the social justice writing classroom / Lauren F. Lichty & Karen Rosenberg -- Transparency as a defense-less act: shining light on emerging ideologies in an activist writing and research course / Heather Fester -- It depends on the context: cultural competencies in first-year English / Mara Holt -- The metis of reliability: using the framework for success to aid the performance of neutrality within writing assessment / Tristan Abbott -- Massive open ideology: ideological neutrality in Arizona State's composition MOOCs / Adam Pacton -- Encounters with friction: engaging resistance through strategic neutrality / Romeo García & Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa -- Turning resistances into engagement / Erika Johnson & Tawny LeBouef Tullia -- Who is afraid of neutrality?: Performativity, resignification, and the Jena Six in the composition classroom / David P. Stubblefield & Chad Chisholm -- Moving from transparent to translucent pedagogy / Jennifer Thomas & Allison L. Rowland -- Full disclosure/now what? / Daniel P. Richards.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.College teachers -- AttitudesPrejudicesTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.