Twenty-first Century Writing Center Staff Education: Teaching and Learning towards Inclusive and Productive Everyday Practice

This study takes up questions of how to best orient staff to issues of difference, especially the question: How do writing center educators facilitate tutors' development of inclusive multi/trans-cultural, -lingual, and -literacy perspectives and practices? Results indicate that developing deliberate approaches allows us to see more clearly the possibilities for a cohesive, transformative staff education pedagogy. Some approaches supporting the transformative ethos can be characterized as follows: discussion (as a staff; in small groups; one-with-one); writing on private staff blog; reading scholarship (as a group and independently); developing resources (as a staff; in small groups; independently).