Learning How to Think: Why Rhetoric Matters in K12 with Erec Smith

You may not think kids in k12 need to learn rhetoric, but the truth is, if they aren't taught reading properly, and if English Language Arts becomes another social science class, kids will not learn what they need to learn how to think properly: rhetoric.

Join me as I sit down LIVE with Erec Smith to discuss this important topic!
Erec Smith is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania. Although he has eclectic scholarly interests, Smith’s primary focuses on the rhetorics of anti-racist activism, theory, and pedagogy. He is a co-founder of Free Black Thought, a website dedicated to highlighting viewpoint diversity within the black intelligentsia. Also, Smith is a Senior Fellow for the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism and an advisor for Counterweight, an organization that advocates for classical liberal concepts of social justice. In his latest book, A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment, Smith addresses the detriments of anti-racist rhetoric and writing pedagogy based on identity and prefigurative politics and suggests that a more empowering form anti-racism be considered.

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