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New Publication on the Writerly

Post author By Robert Gray
Post date February 8, 2025

This is the image the article is based around. The picture is of me writing "Learning is an act of writing" in the margin of Roland Barthes's S/Z, on the page that includes much of his central thinking about the writerly.

An article that works kind of as my teaching philosophy statement was recently published in Transformative Dialogues.

It is titled “Learning as Interpretation, as [Re]Writing: A Philosophy of Teaching and the Function of the Writerly,” and you can access it here: https://journals.psu.edu/td/article/view/1819

Gray, Robert. (2024). Learning as Interpretation, as [Re]Writing: A Philosophy of Teaching and the Function of the Writerly. Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal 17(2), 101-107. https://doi.org/10.26209/td2024vol17iss21819

ISSOTL Workshop 2024: Making Meaning Together

Post author By Robert Gray
Post date October 29, 2024

We are offering a workshop at the ISSOTL 2024 Conference in October, 2024.

Here are the slides and handouts:

Handout: The Writerly Protocol (pdf) (docx)
Handout: Spot the Writerly (pdf)
Handout: Amplify the Writerly (pdf)
Slides: Making Meaning Together (pdf)

Upcoming Talk on the Writerly

Post author By Robert Gray
Post date October 29, 2024

Rob Gray will be giving an online webinar for Auburn University at Montgomery as part of National Distance Learning Week (US). The webinar is titled “Online Learning as a Textual Act: The Role of the Writerly in Course Design and Evaluation” and will take place on Thursday, 7. November at 9:00 am CST / 16:00 CET.

This workshop presents new ways to think about how students engage with course content by reconceptualizing learning as an act of writing, an act of meaning making. Focusing on this “writterly” concept of learning, this session explores how to adapt it to the context of online course design and evaluation.