NotesThe many voices it is possible to hear (read) on the listserv as a system of discourse. These voices are not, therefore, randomly or even conversationally conjoined; rather, they are analogous to chimes, each with its separate sound and its close relationships to other chimes in the system of a piece of music. Multivocality does not necessarily imply collaboration, however.
We refer to all the opportunities provided by the course for interaction with others and for self-reflection, including teaching logs, class discussions, responses to readings, and even visits to the instructor’s office hours. All of these interactions constitute a rhetorical space whose boundaries represent permeable constraints on participants’ choice of topics and ways of talking about them. These constraints are permeable because almost any topic may arise in these interactions that is contingently related to the ostensibly constrained "professional" topics on which the listserv and the courses focus.
The Kentucky Educational Reform Act of 1990 arose out of a lawsuit that resulted in the state Supreme Court’s declaring the public school system to be in violation of the constitution of the Commonwealth. The Reform Act mandated, among other things, a strong, and still controversial, emphasis on writing across the curriculum and school assessment through portfolios. See the homepage of the Kentucky State Department of Education
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