Toward more sustainable metaphors of writing program administration / edited by Lydia Wilkes, Lilian W. Mina, and Patti Poblete.

"Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration builds on forty years of conversations about metaphors by presenting twelve chapters that reclaim and revise established metaphors; offer new metaphors based on sustainable, relational, or emotional labor practices and phenome...

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Online Access: Full Text (via University Press of Colorado)
Other Authors: Wilkes, Lydia (Editor), Mina, Lilian W. (Editor), Poblete, Patti (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2023]
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Table of Contents:
  • From putting out fires to managing fires : lessons for WPAs from indigenous fire managers / Lydia Wilkes
  • Seeing the forest and the trees : a rhizomatic metaphor for Writing Program administration / Jacob Babb
  • Light and the quantum physics of WPA work / Andrew Hollinger and Manny Piña
  • Grounding WPA work : a phenomenology of program development as a liminal WPA / Ryan J. Dippre
  • The WPA as labor activist / John Belk
  • Learning, representing, and endorsing the landscape : WPA as cartographer / Katherine Daily O'Meara
  • Approaching WPA labor with Ahimsa : mapping emotional geographies through sustainable leadership / Christy I. Wenger
  • Representing the basement / Alexis Teagarden
  • Interlocking circles / Cynthia D. Mwenja
  • The affordances and risks of artisanal production as a metaphor for Writing Program administration / Robyn Tasaka
  • "Building the plane as we fly it" : revising our thinking about our First-Year Experience Program / Rona Kaufman and Scott Rogers
  • I'm just playin' : directing writing programs as improv / Kim Gunter
  • Afterword : sustaining what for why? / Douglas Hesse.