In our second episode of Slow Agency, we spoke with Dr. Asao Inoue, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University, author of Antiracist writing assessment ecologies: Teaching and assessing for a socially just future (2015) and Labor-based grading contracts: Building equity and inclusion in the compassionate writing classroom (2017). The first half of our conversation centered on Inoue’s work on labor-based contract grading and the writing classroom.
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Yagelski, B. (2011). Writing as a way of being: Writing instruction, nonduality, and the crisis of sustainability. Hampton Press.
Adichie, C. Ni. (2013). Americanah. Alfred A. Knopf.
Inoue, A. B. (2020). Stories about grading contracts, or how I like through the violence I’ve done? Journal of Writing Assessment, 13(2).
Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants. Milkweed Editions.
Inoue, A. B. (upcoming). Above the well: An antiracist literacy argument of A boy of color.
The “Slow Agency” Podcast
This 36-episode podcast brings researchers at the intersection of writing centers and writing studies to help you intentionally consider and address issues affecting your work in the writing center.
Created and hosted by Esther R. Namubiru, Anna S. Habib, and Weijia Li, the goal of this podcast was to open up time and space in this productivity-saturated culture to slow down and dialogue with leading thinkers and practitioners in writing studies worldwide. The title of the podcast is inspired by Micciche, L. (2011) For slow agency. Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, 35 (1), 73-90. Our inaugural episode features WLN’s journal editors whose wisdom and hard work make this journal and the blog possible.
