Explores the authority of experience, the role it plays, and the limits it sets in teaching for diversity. Questions whether teachers can teach what they have never experienced. Discusses Nella Larsen's novel "Passing," with emphasis on the confusion of racial and sexual relations, as a difficult situation similar to the classroom. (HB)

Focuses on attitudes toward ideology in the three rhetorics that have emerged as most conspicuous in classroom practices today: (1) cognitive psychology, represented by Linda Flower; (2) expressionism, represented by Peter Elbow and Donald Murray; and (3) social-epistemic, represented by Ira Shor in CRITICAL TEACHING AND EVERYDAY LIFE. (JAD)

The lack of understanding of most white Americans about the true role of the American Indian and other minority groups in American history is an outgrowth of the failure of the media in general, and history texts in particular, to realistically address minority/majority relations throughout U.S. history. Several suggestions to aid in public…

What we seek out and note in earlier literature is what is most prominent, satisfying, and comprehensible to the contemporary imagination. (RB)

Explores the difficulties of teaching and learning about women's literature in a women's prison. Reveals inmates' attitudes toward feminism and women's literature. (RL)

A weekly letter to the class gives each student in a literature class a chance to uncover their relationship to what they are reading. (DD)

Recent increases in the speed and accessibility of computers and networks have made it possible to administer tests on-line. On-line assessment can be conducted in a controlled setting, such as a testing center, or distributed over local area networks or the Internet to libraries and student homes, allowing students the flexibility to complete…

THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: LEVEL: High school and college. AUTHOR'S COMMENT: Many would like to abandon the distinction between "lay" and "lie," but I still receive enough questions about it to continue teaching it. Finding that students did not believe me when I taught them to substitute "recline" for "lie," because "The rug…

Explores the application of a process-based methodology in reading of recent fictional text, Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day," with international undergraduates. Illustrated by practical tasks on narrative voice designed to build awareness of metadiscursive markers and their functions, this article makes a case for a methodology that is…

This curriculum outline presents the components of an introductory course to French culture which focuses on the colonization of French Polynesia. First, the general goals and student objectives for the course, which focuses on different historical periods of French Polynesia, are discussed. Next, the pre-test to determine students knowledge of…

Presents findings from a case study of factors influencing successful cooperative apprenticeship programs. Indicates that apprenticeships are cost-effective mechanisms for bringing together the human and capital resources within a community to solve human resource education and business training needs. (21 citations). (MAB)

Argues that writing in the content areas should be used as a discovery tool, stimulating students' conceptual involvement and prompting them to further investigations. (MM)

Notes the differences between language for learning and language for informing, pointing out that the latter is overemphasized by teachers. Proposes the increased use of expressive writing in all disciplines. Offers suggestions about staff preparation for using writing more effectively in all disciplines. (RL)

Suggests a possible unified theory of reading, interpretation, and composition based on recent research in composition combined with the theoretical contributions of reader response critics in literature. Describes a pedagogical program based on this theoretical model that uses students' responses to texts as the center of the course. (JL)

Reports on a survey of how laypeople responded to errors in usage, their attitudes toward the acceptability of certain errors, and the values they placed on certain language styles. (RL)