Academic Literacies and the Employability Curriculum: Resisting Neoliberal Education?

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The Perspectives on Writing series addresses writing studies in a broad sense. Consistent with the wide ranging approaches characteristic of teaching and scholarship in writing across the curriculum, the series presents works that take divergent perspectives on working as a writer, teaching writing, administering writing programs, and studying writing in its various forms. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES ON THE STUDY OF WRITING Series Editors, Terry Myers Zawacki, Magnus Gustafsson, and Joan MullinThe International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Series publishes book-length manuscripts that address worldwide perspectives on writing, writers, teaching with writing, and scholarly writing practices, specifically those that draw on scholarship across national and disciplinary borders to challenge parochial understandings of all of the above. The series aims to examine writing activities in 21st-century contexts, particularly how they are informed by globalization, national identity, social networking, and increased cross-cultural communication and awareness. As such, the series strives to investigate how both the local and the international inform writing research and the facilitation of writing development.viiiContents Chapter 27 . Building Research Capacity through an AcLits-Inspired Pedagogical Framework .

Academic Writing in Times of Crisis: Refashioning Writing Tutor Development for Online Environments

“…However, they are not without critique. The systemic provocation for Writing Developers is to change, and challenge, the actual institutional perceptions and practices of academic writing learning and teaching by advocating for the situated and contextualised nature of writing in the (inter)disciplinary, cultural, and social spaces of learning (Butler, 2013;Neculai 2015). Developing tutoring pedagogies embedded in the multi-stranded field of Academic Writing practice-cum-research is one way in which writing development work can respond to this challenge and effect change.…”

Academic writing re-designed: Connecting languages and literacy in the assemblage of EAP

“…In other words, EAP programs "create a set of academic objects that become viewed by consumers as a means of increasing their human-capital" (Litzenberg, 2020, p. 826). As such, the teaching and learning of academic writing operates as tool in the reproduction of neoliberal order, and students become consumers of knowledge as a product that promises future professional return (Neculai, 2015). Chun (2009Chun ( , 2015Chun ( , 2016 has long warned of how neoliberal ideologies circulate in EAP programs from the recruitment methods and materials that target wealthier populations to the student-educator relationship that more resembles service-provider and customer.…”