A Pedagogy of Possibility: Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies (Rhetoric & Composition) - Tapa blanda

"No one working in this line of inquiry has yet come close to [Halasek] in articulating Bakhtin's views with those of the authoritative voices in composition studies; no one has recognized and developed the implications of his work across the key topics of the field from disciplinarity to history to theory to pedagogy; no one has managed, as she has, to shift the ground of conversation in the field into Bakhtinian terrain, forcefully modifying the questions we need to ask and at the same time leaving open spaces for our investigating and debating them. This is one of the most lucid expositions and extensions of Bakhtin's work I have read in any field, and it is one of the most thoughtful, engaged, and potentially fruitful books I have read in the field of composition studies."--Don Bialostosky, Penn State University

The author reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical assumptions and its pedagogies. Halasek explores the implications of Bakhtin's work and provides a model of scholarship balanced between practice and theory.