NEMLA 2027: Cultivating Civic Reasoning and Engagement: Critical Consciousness in the Writing Classroom
NeMLA's 58th Annual Convention
March 6-9, 2027, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
This panel invites proposals exploring how rhetoric and composition scholars and teachers can develop what bell hooks, Paulo Freire, and other educators in the field call critical consciousness, or our ability to recognize and analyze oppressive political, economic, and social forces shaping society and to take action. Critical consciousness provides a foundation for cultivating students’ civic reasoning and civic literacy skills across diverse institutional and disciplinary contexts.
