Presents Hannah Arendt's views on the relationship between art and society, concluding that "worldlessness" or world alienation is reflected in modern literature and literary criticism. (DD)

Addresses the problem of how the effectiveness of collaborative teaching models can be assessed. Discusses the teacher's role in collaborative sessions as task setter, classroom manager, and synthesizer. Summarizes the features of collaborative session to be considered by an outside evaluator. (EL)

Asserts that the act of visualizing is of vital importance in interpreting Wallace Stevens' poetry. Examines Stevens' use of "riddling" (using metaphors to create poetic riddles) as a literary device in several of his poems. (MM)

Discusses a critical approach for dealing with passages of superior literary merit in otherwise mediocre works and with shifts in the nature of languages" employed within a given work. (RD)

Offers a view of writing as a process involving three forms of collaboration: coauthoring, workshopping, and knowledge making. Offers guidelines for designing courses in which writing is consciously, deliberately collaborative in all three of the realms identified. (MG)

A project was undertaken to increase retention in a health education telecourse by incorporating a competency-based orientation to distance learning and learner-centered instructional strategies into the telecourse, and by using multiple media for content delivery and interaction. A general orientation to distance learning was developed that…

Investigates a broad question in light of the author's own background: what is it that educators think they are doing while teaching postcolonial literature? Investigates an analogy between postcolonial and gay and lesbian studies by looking at the author's reading and teaching approach to Mariama Ba's novel "So Long a Letter." (TB)

The role of Claiborne Pell, Chairman of the Senate Education Subcommittee, in expanding the commitment and altering the focus of federal aid to post-secondary education is discussed. (NF)

Includes economic and political background in a review of the historical development of vocationalism in American, beginning with the latter part of the 19th century and continuing to the current career education movement. (Editor)

Attempts to find exclusively Elizabethan solutions to the human problems in Shakespeare's plays often lead us to deny our own responses. (JH)

This document contains 143 competencies, grouped into 25 units, for tech prep programs in the interactive media technologies cluster. The competencies were developed through collaboration of Ohio business, industry, and labor representatives and secondary and associate degree educators. The competencies are rated either "essential" (necessary to…

Advocates the teaching of interdependent courses, which combine a section of composition and an introductory course in another subject, such as psychology. (DD)

Updates the list of classic excuses students make to teachers when their paper is late--this time in reference to the mishaps that may occur with a computer. (CRH)

Analyzes the machismo syndrome of middle class literature by Dickey and Mailer against the principles of Marxist criticism. Comment by Sol Yurick. (RB)

Reviews theories of cognitive development to show that most basic writers are operating below the true-concept formation stage and have difficulty in "decentering"; suggests writing assignments based on inference-drawing to remedy the situation. (DD)