...Allison D. Carr; Laura R. Micciche This article examines the development of advanced writing curricula at a historically black public university during postrecession austerity measures. Analysis of institutional documents suggests that advocates enacted selfdetermined curricular changes by using...

...Elizabeth Schirmer; Avilah Getzler This article describes a collaborative effort by faculty at two very different institutions to integrate the study of language change into surveys of early British literature. Using a series of structured assignments, the Word Project engages students directly...

... for social justice in their new community. Students wrote in multiple genres as they attended the meetings and events of different groups involved with environmentalism, food justice, adjunct rights, and more. As students connected their social-change work to the classroom, they learned more about different...

... was over, I asked if anyone had changed their minds about their initial claim. Some had; some had not; many just said they were now even more confused than they had been. However, they were ready this time to articulate their reasons for the confusion: Singleton seemed to be breaking some rules...

.... Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. doi 10.1215/15314200-1302777 Welch    Neoliberal Language Pulls the Wool over Faculty Governance  553 Shared Governance in an Age of Change Elizabeth...

... distribution and collaboration, raises questions about how this also changes the visibility of faculty's administrative labor, and may contribute to misperceptions about the intellectual work and expertise required for service and writing program administration. We close by proposing design as a critical...

... into practical activities for teaching and learning collaborative writing utilizing Web-based applications, all the while discussing issues about how groups work together and what the tools can enable, synchronously and asynchronously. How New Literacies Change Collaboration Knobel and Lankshear (2006...

... . “Teaching Politically without Political Correctness.” Democratic Culture 5 : 3 -8. Hendrix, Scott, Sarah Hoskinson, Erica Jacobson, and Saira Sufi. 2000 . “What Happened in English 101?” In Blundering for a Change: Errors and Expectations in Critical Pedagogy , ed. John Paul Tassoni and William H...

..., and Culture Volume 5, Number 1, © 2005 Duke University Press 157 Changing the Contexts for Documenting Our Teaching Composition, Pedagogy, and the Scholarship of Teaching. Edited by Deborah Minter and Amy M. Goodburn. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002. Jane Mathison Fife The title of this collection can...

...,” “writing,” “students”) and engage in rhetorical and reflective listening, we can move away from a model of teaching as rules, templates, and regulations; we can begin to engage our own assumptions along with those of our students, changing together the very definitions that constrain the evolution of our...

... . “ Following the Nonacademic Track .” Chronicle of Higher Education , March 30 . chronicle.com/article/Following-the-Nonacademic/64864 . Cluster on Graduate Education in English Studies From All Sides Rethinking Professionalization in a Changing Job Market David M. Ball, William...

...Shawna Ross This article considers the pedagogical implications of climate change and other environmental catastrophes of the Anthropocene, the new geological epoch identified by climate scientists. In the Anthropocene, the human species has become the most significant force shaping Earth’s...

...Cassandra Falke Abstract This article identifies in contemporary literary theory a new optimism about the power of literary texts. The medium of this power is not language, ideology, or form but readers open to being changed. Drawing on phenomenology, the article discusses methods for making...

... to this examination, the essay proposes that the Boyer Report attempted to alter teaching by arguing that teachers and the systems that support them needed to change, an argument that failed to convince college faculty to change. The article concludes with the proposal that the real exigence facing college faculty...

...Martin Bickman Using autobiographical incidents, the author argues that to reform our pedagogy we need to change our professional lives, abandoning our habits of solitary research for more direct and communal action. We must go beyond our disciplinary fields and enlist students as allies...

...Martha C. Pennington Changing constructions of literacy in online contexts are situating reading and writing within everyday and popular culture activities while also facilitating highly specialized literate and creative activity. I define these two types of literacy as “little-l” literacy and “Big...

...Rachel Boccio This essay addresses education's paradoxical binding to disciplinary and hierarchical formulas and to social change and personal transformation, an irony uniquely extreme within the prison classroom. It juxtaposes two pedagogical models — one conventionally liberal, the other...

...Joyce Wexler The military historian Yuval Noah Harari accounts for the enduring allure of war by calling attention to a change in soldiers' memoirs that occurred in the mid-eighteenth century. Soldiers began to describe how they felt rather than what they did. Harari introduces the term flesh...

...Kim Brian Lovejoy; Steve Fox; Scott Weeden Drawing on research in systems theory and their own programmatic efforts to recognize, value, and integrate language differences in first-year composition, the authors argue for a multilevel approach for sustainable and systemic change to occur. Multilevel...

... for how to involve students in curating digital exhibits using library special collections, to explore the role of literary and popular texts in social change. Such projects offer student opportunities to understand cultural history in more complex ways, to develop the ability to collaborate effectively...