Pedagogical In Loco Parentis: Reflecting on Power and Parental Authority in the Writing Classroom
JoAnne Podis and Leonard Podis

In higher education, issues of in loco parentis have been most often discussed in connection with campus administrative policies. College writing teachers need to reflect, however, on the ways they conceivably exercise parental authority in their own classrooms, through such models as the Stern Father and the Nurturing Mother.

The Sea Island Citizenship Schools: Literacy, Community Organization, and the Civil Rights Movement
Stephen Schneider

We need to complicate current accounts of critical pedagogy by examining how educational institutions beyond traditional classrooms have served progressive movements. One example was the Sea Island Citizenship Schools. By examining the latter’s history, we also become better aware of how the education-related work of the American civil rights movement encompassed more than the desegregation prompted by the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown decision.

Reconsiderations: Voice in Writing Again: Embracing Contraries
Peter Elbow

“Voice” is no longer a hot term in composition journals. Yet it continues to deserve scholarly attention, in part because it is still often referred to in classrooms and seems applicable to new forms of electronic communication. At the same time, we should avoid taking an either/or stand on the usefulness of “voice” as a term. This is a case where we should embrace contraries, by advocating concepts of “voice” on certain occasions and resisting the term on others.

Texts of Our Institutional Lives: Accessibility Scans and Institutional Activity: An Activity Theory Analysis
Clay Spinuzzi

Drawing on activity theory, the author describes and analyzes how he uses software to determine whether websites administered by his university are accessible to disabled people. He argues that ultimately, accessibility is a rhetorical construct, in the sense that it is defined by communities rather than by sheer technical measurements.

Opinion: The Ethical Exhibitionist’s Agenda: Honesty and Fairness in Creative Nonfiction
William Bradley

Although writers of personal essays and autobiographies must often rely on vulnerable memory, they should not engage in sheer invention if they want to call their work “nonfiction.”