Humane Composition Pedagogy

Humane Composition Pedagogy (HCP) provides a pedagogical framework for reconciling the current disconnect between neoliberal higher education policies (sometimes called the business model of higher education) and the demand for kinder and more human-centered instruction. Humane education is a pedagogical model, with origins in secondary education, that considers emotional wellbeing, civic engagement, and intrinsic motivation as central to learning. The authors suggest that humane pedagogies can and should be adapted to higher education contexts, as a means of synthesizing literatures on the pedagogies of inclusion and care from noteworthy scholars including Jamil Zaki, Lisa Blankenship, Asao B. Inoue, Ruchika Tulshyan, and more. Without feeding a crisis narrative or calling for a complete systemic overhaul, HCP offers both an alternative to, and an act of resistance against, dehumanizing forces in today s colleges and universities. In exploring its three tenets empathy, wellbeing, and belonging the authors call for improved collaboration among key stakeholders (faculty, students, and administrators) to center the human experience in how we approach college instruction, thereby allowing universities to better fulfill their educational missions.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Introducing Humane Composition Pedagogy.- 2. Ecologies of Empathy: A Relational Model for the Humane Composition Classroom.- 3. Fostering Cultures of Wellbeing within the Humane Composition Classroom.- 4. Nurturing Belonging: Access and Inclusion Practices for the Humane Composition Classroom.- 5. Conclusion: Towards a Humane Higher Education.

About the author

Tamara Luque Black is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California, USA.
Amber Foster is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Tamara Luque Black, Amber Foster
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2025
• EAN: 9783031861642
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3186164-2
• No. of pages: 133
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 11 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 285 g
• Illustrations: IX, 133 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Pädagogik, Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, Lerntechniken, Pedagogy, Bildungsziel Inklusion, Creative Writing, Inclusive Education, higher education, Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft, Writing skills, Literature and Pedagogy, holistic education, composition studies, Conference on College Composition & Communication, teaching writing, rhetoric studies