ABSTRACT

Continual reflecting, critical thinking, and active learning are the hallmarks of pedagogy in the University of Kentucky (UK) writing center community. Because our writing center work is based on individual needs, learning is conducted one-on-one, group-to-group, and case-by-case. We promote a contextual and flexible process of active education. In moving from a print to a technological culture, pedagogies must be multiple and adaptable. Unfortunately, many institutions of higher education are arranged as passive learning environments that favor depositing information-what Freire (1997) called the banking method of education-as a teaching strategy. Writing center directors, therefore, need to claim and name active pedagogies and to apply them to local technologies and the literacies these technologies enable-both inside and outside of our own institutions and communities.