The clock is ticking... It's time to make a choice. I've committed to my winter line up of assignments. All it took was one solid quote from Kristie Fleckenstein.
In Vision, rhetoric, and social action in the composition classroom, she writes:
"Borrowing from Johan Galtung, a scholar in peace studies, who has a developed a taxonomy for violence and, conversely, peace, I see social action functioning on three intersecting planes: direct, in which individuals seek to change conditions of their personal lives; structural, in which individuals, alone or in conjunction with others, seek to change institutions that support, explicitly or implicitly, unjust social conditions; and cultural, in which individuals, again alone or in conjunction with others, seek to alter the systemic threads by which a culture organizes itself, such as its rhetorical and visual habits. Each level is reciprocally linked to the others" (5).
To address the first plane, we will be engaging in a Twitter campaign to seek support for our own personal quests to create change in our lives. I'll have a stock set of readings with the opportunity to explore outside sources online to develop a summary response reflection.
The second plane will be the meat of our class in which we will engage in a Problem/Solution Assignment with an online advocacy component.
Finally, will address the third level with a culture jamming assignment.
Fun!
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