New Perspectives in Science Education

Erik Ellis is an advanced lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. The themes of his academic writing courses are ambivalence and picture books. His publications include “Toward a Pedagogy of Psychic Distance” in The Centrality of Style and “Shushes in the Parlor: Reclaiming the ‘Conversation’ Metaphor” in Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches.