Date of Award

7-13-2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Department of English

First Advisor

Robert Broad

Abstract

76 pages

Suffering from a personal crisis of passivity in his teaching of writing and personal composition in the public sphere, Soper looks for inspiration and guidance through a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary inquiry into the disciplines of composition, teaching high school English Language Arts, and practicing Kendo, the Japanese Way of the Sword. Soper reflects not only on his personal crisis borne of the socio-political landscape of the current moment but calls for and promotes a redemption of our public discourse in the interest of battling our shared exigencies: the dual-crises of trust in our democratic institutions and our global environmental crisis. Soper investigates how he can seize the opportunity to contribute to finding solutions for these various crises by considering the kendo concept of ki-ken-tai-ichi, which is the standard for a successful strike in kendo.KEYWORDS: Rhetoric, composition, kendo, crisis, project-based learning, English Language Arts

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Imported from Soper_ilstu_0092N_12001.pdf

DOI

https://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2021.20211012065806770084.999952

Page Count

89

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