In this project,autoethnographywas integrated into theReading and Composition classroomto help studentsuse their own perspectives and experiencesas tools for critical analysis, fosteringself-reflexive reading and writingwhile exploring the relationship betweenart and oppressionAuthor: John Fielding, Continuing Lecturer in College Writing ProgramsGrant Type: Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program (LTF)Project Details: "Exploring Art and Oppression through Autoethnography: Making the Personal Critical in Composition" |
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From the author: Integrating features of Autoethnography into the Reading and Composition classroom, this project aims to help students value their own perspectives, interests, and experiences as a set of tools to critically explore any given text. Students are guided in their freewrites and related activities to recognize, measure, and plot their own positionality relative to a set of common texts which are themselves analyzed as models for the powers and pitfalls of a self-reflexive and embedded critical orientation. The tailored units map a terrain I am still exploring in the development of confident, comfortable, and invested readers and writers through the cultivation of a personal connection to issues framed by the driving-question “How does art relate to oppression?”