Who Owns School?
Authority, Students, and Online Discourse

by Kelly Ritter

New Dimensions in Computers and Composition Series
eds. Cynthia Selfe and Gail Hawisher
Hampton Press, 2010


Reviewed by Rita Malenczyk
Director, University Writing Program and Writing Center
Eastern Connecticut State University










Introduction   



What About Freire?



The Pink Monkey



Psst! Wanna Buy A...?



And His Pants Are Ugly



Conclusions



Opinions



References and Credits

Ritter:  "This online dialogue 'unlocks' (in RMP terms) the confidential course evaluation, making it available for public scrutiny and, if warranted, public amendment.  RMP participants, for good or ill, seek to engage in a communal support network, one that gives the 'real' picture of teaching and learning, in an extracurricular setting free from academic surveillance….[Their] discourse does not always adhere to notions of conversational civility or other institutionally set parameters for evaluating learning, but does allow for a freedom of exchange rarely available in even the most radical pedagogies…. " (p. 117) (back)