LET’S PLAY!
CREATIVE-CRITICAL MULTIMODAL PLAY AS RHETORICAL PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
This day-long workshop explores the scholarly and pedagogical uses of creative-critical play with theatrical exercises and multimodal texts. Creative critical practice, informed by critical discourse perspectives, offers many opportunities to the writing classroom.
Purposefully designed exercises that harness creative-critical play towards rhetorical and linguistic awareness can:
· deepen rhetorical learning through drama based pedagogy
· expand critical literacy practices
· renew scholarly conversations around the socio-linguistic and rhetorical conventions
· that emerge in everyday contexts
Our workshop’s approach to creative-critical play will encourage powerful interventions into traditional models of academic preparation, reimagining the "world-building" projects of academic work and creating new spaces of belonging.
Come play with us!: Liz DeBetta, Freddie Harris Ramsby, Michelle LaFrance, Lydia McDermott, Amy Piwowarski, and Jackie Rhodes
And bring your cellphones!
Session Code 2: W.1
WEDNESDAY 4/9/25
9 AM-5PM
MEETING ROOM 350, BALTIMORE CONVENTION CENTER
Jacqueline Rhodes, Ph.D.
Kelleher Centennial Professor of
Rhetoric and Composition
Director, University Writing Center
Department of Rhetoric and Writing
The University of Texas at Austin
208 W. 21st St., Stop B5500
Austin, TX 78712-1038
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