A Constructive Approach to Infrastructure: Infrastructure "Breakdowns" and the Cultivation of Rhetorical Wisdom

Autor/inn/en	Clifton, Jennifer; Loveridge, Jordan; Long, Elenore
Titel	A Constructive Approach to Infrastructure: Infrastructure "Breakdowns" and the Cultivation of Rhetorical Wisdom
Quelle	In: Community Literacy Journal, 11 (2016) 1, S.22-32 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1555-9734
Schlagwörter	Educational Practices; Barriers; Best Practices; Rhetoric; Models; Creative Thinking; Problem Solving; Heuristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungspraxis; Rhetorik; Analogiemodell; Kreatives Denken; Problemlösen; Heuristik
Abstract	It is not typically the bent of infrastructure to be continually responsive in a way that is expansive and inclusive; instead, for newcomers or those with alternative histories, aims, vision, values, and perspectives, the inertia of infrastructure is more likely to be experienced as infrastructural breakdowns. We ask: "What might wisdom look like in these "structured" encounters?" That is, "what is the intellectual work of rhetoric on those thin ledges where institutional chronos shapes and limits possibilities for knowledge work and working relationships among people who likely would not have otherwise met?" In response, we advance a framework for a constructive approach to infrastructure--one that prizes deliberation over rationalization and actively attends to the warrants underlying calls for public engagement. We first consider the relationship between infrastructure, rhetorical wisdom, and the imagination of possibilities, then lay out a framework for cultivating rhetorical wisdom in response to infrastructure breakdowns. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01