Editors’ Introduction to the Journal
A forum for intercultural discourse
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We, SKRIB: Critical Studies in Writing Programs and Pedagogy co-editors, and the editorial board are pleased to provide a space for multilingual, international writing scholars and practitioners. As we wrote on the founding of the journal, our hope for SKRIB is to facilitate “intercultural dialogue around the development of writing programmes, writing centres, and writing pedagogy in post-secondary institutions of higher learning around the world.” As a forum for intercultural discourse, SKRIB draws attention to the ways in which the writing at the core of our work is not neutral, but rather deeply personal, and it resides in an inherently politicized space. Our work is always necessarily caught up in globalization processes and global contestations of power between nation states, ideologies, cultures, communities, and languages. SKRIB invites scholars to centre this conception of writing as inherently political in the ways they critically reflect on their writing programs, pedagogies, and initiatives, and, especially, in how they contribute to the development of writing studies; decolonization, equity, inclusion, and diversity are fundamental responsibilities of writing teachers, scholars, and administrators.
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