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title | : | Situating College English : Lessons From an American University Eries in Language and Ideology |
author | : | Carton, Evan.; Friedman, Alan Warren. |
publisher | : | Greenwood Publishing Group |
isbn10 | asin | : | 089789460X |
print isbn13 | : | 9780897894609 |
ebook isbn13 | : | 9780585386553 |
language | : | English |
subject | English philology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States. |
publication date | : | 1996 |
lcc | : | PE68.U5S54 1996eb |
ddc | : | 428/.0071/173 |
subject | : | English philology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States. |
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Situating College English
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Situating College English
Lessons from an American University
EDITED BY
Evan Carton and Alan W. Friedman
Series in Language and Ideology
Edited by Donaldo Macedo
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Situating college English : lessons from an American university /
edited by Evan Carton and Alan W. Friedman.
p. cm.(Series in language and ideology, ISSN 10696806)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 089789460X (alk. paper).ISBN 0897894812 (pbk. :
alk. paper)
1. English philologyStudy and teaching (Higher)United States.
I. Carton, Evan. II. Friedman, Alan Warren. III. Series.
PE68.U5S54 1996
428'.0071'173dc20 9544323
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.
Copyright 1996 by Evan Carton and Alan W. Friedman
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 9544323
ISBN: 089789460X
0897894812 (pbk.)
ISSN: 10696806
First published in 1996
Bergin & Garvey, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.481984).
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Contents
Acknowledgments | xi |
Part I. Introductions |
1. Standard English at the University of Texas | |
Alan Warren Friedman |
2. Political Correctness, Principled Contextualism, Pedagogical Conscience | |
Evan Carton |
Part II. Canonicity, Subalternity, and Literary Pedagogy |
3. Pedagogy and the Canon Controversy | |
Jacqueline Bacon |
4. A Multicultural Curriculum: Diversity or Divisiveness? | |
Helena Woodard |
5. Rereading Texas History: Cultural Impoverishment, Empowerment, and Pedagogy | |
Louis Mendoza |
6. English Literature, the Irish, and The Norton Anthology | |
Rachel Jennings |
7. The Thumb of Ekalavya: Postcolonial Studies and the Third World Scholar in a First World Academy | |
S. Shankar |
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8. Reclaiming the Teaching Assistant: Dissent as a Pedagogical Tool | |
Jean Lee Cole and Jennifer Huth |
Part III. Reading, Writing, Teaching: Principles and Provocations |
9. Warranting a Postmodernist Literary Studies | |
Gordon A. Grant III |
10. Knowledge, Power, and the Melancholy of English Studies | |
Robert G. Twombly |
11. Collaborative Learning in the Postmodern Classroom | |
Jerome Bump |
12. Professionalism and the Problem of the We in Composition Studies | |
Nancy L. Peterson |
13. An Accidental Writing Teacher | |
Sara E. Kimball |
14. Having Students Write on Moral Topics: Legal, Religious, and Pedagogical Issues | |
James L. Kinneavy |
Part IV. Bodies, Sexualities, and Computers in the Classroom |
15. Desire and Learning: The Perversity of Pedagogy | |
Kathleen Kane |
16. Learning and Desire: A Pedagogical Model | |
Edward Madden |
17. Gender and Trauma in the Classroom | |
Margot Gayle Backus |
18. Type Normal Like the Rest of Us: Writing, Power, and Homophobia in the Networked Composition Classroom | |
Alison Regan |
19. Rethinking Pedagogical Authority in Response to Homophobia in the Networked Classroom | |
Susan Claire Warshauer |
20. Here, Queer, and Perversely Sincere: Lesbian Subjects in the English Department | |
Kim Emery |
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Bibliography | |
Index | |
Contributors | |
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Acknowledgments
We wish to express our gratitude to Marla Akin and Jackie Rabinovitz for their assistance in putting together the spring 1992 conference on Pedagogy and Values at the University of Texas at Austin, out of which this volume has emerged. Others who made significant contributions to that conference include Beth E. Kolko, Lisa Moore, Kamala Platt, and Marjorie Curry Woods. Several of the chapters included here have been previously published in somewhat different form, and we acknowledge with thanks permission for the following:
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