...Julie Prebel Educational theorists emphasize the importance of creating a classroom environment that encourages positive or productive student resistance to dominant social discourse. This article revisits work in critical pedagogy, feminism, and composition by focusing on the challenges...

... to the humanities. His project can be liberally applied in the writing classroom, and doing so will help students overcome the consternation associated with writing. Through somaesthetic instruction, students can develop personalized writing rituals and identify aesthetically conducive environments in which...

... discussions of difference. And indeed, this circumven- tion of difference is also represented linguistically, as the field produces and reproduces a prohibitively standard mode of discourse that tends to code as white and thus exclusionary to some students of color. Such a classroom environment...

... classroom practices of reading, writing, discussing, and listening, the instructor can forge an environment that strengthens students’ capacity to appreciate the textual and contemporary interaction between individuals and their historical contexts, and to hear alternative perspectives and experiences...

... in postpositivist pedagogies, we have questions of our own; namely, how exactly can we continue to best do our jobs when the constraints of the classroom environment and technologies thrust upon us seem to serve students so poorly? As Thomas H. Benton (2010) laments, “I can’t remember a time when professors...

... , 45 – 53 . New York : Bedford- St. Martin’s . White E. B. 1941 . A Subtreasury of American Humor . New York : Coward- McCann . comedy satire critical thinking interdisciplinary studies classroom environment Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Tom O'Connor This article analyzes classroom discussions of Boaz Yakin's 1994 film Fresh —an unsettling urban drama about a young boy (Fresh) who devises a creative escape from the drug dealers in his environment: he buys a large amount of cocaine that he uses to trick those dealers into thinking...

..., a section on historical topics such as the three estates and law, a somewhat eclectic mixture of chapters titled “Language, Literature, and Rhetoric,” a trio of chapters on Gower and literary theory, and a final section on incorporating Gower into different classroom environments. While...

...) observes in her article on homophobia in the computer classroom that the more liberated environment of the computer classroom can encourage the release of student perspectives that humiliate and oppress other students: I was distressed that the discussion of research topics became an opportunity...

... on the present, while at the same time suggesting a discursive mode for the writing classroom that is closer to compromise than conflict. The New Yorker course creates an alternate classroom environment in part because it eludes the accretions of the past and resists the utopic homogeneity that comes...

... uncomfortable or comments that I think might make other students uncomfortable. Hooks points out that the structures of bourgeois ide- ology shape the classroom environment, and these implicit structures “create a barrier, blocking the possibility of confrontation and conflict, warding off dis- sent” (143...

... to “the intellectual and emotional environments” within the classroom, in fact, directly counters the overstandardization of content by making dis- cussion and feeling relevant to the overall aims of education. Thus, while some may consider such emphases extraneous to the business of education, Burke sees them...

... Teams feature and the synchronous CENTRA virtual classroom environment) tools to foster team building and peer learning • partner with librarians to extend and engage students’ knowledge of research practices. The project unit would extend over two weeks, including two meetings online...

... that most white students whom I teach have never heard of, and it is a form of prejudice that most undergraduates of color know well but have never discussed in a formal classroom environment. Intraracial color prejudice, as Blacker demonstrates, also has undeniable gender and class components...

... for cultural play, what Deborah Britzman (2003: 125) called “theory kindergarten.” In this pedagogy, students are permitted to explore their sameness and differences with an eye to casting aside the oppression of the heteronormative, creating a classroom environ- ment less concerned with proffering...

... environment to be congenial to veterans is particularly important because veterans often fly under the radar in class — having learned the value of camouflage during their military career — and rarely make an issue of the way the classroom accommodates or rubs against their military sensibilities...

..., span time as well as space, and involve historical, cultural, and personal contexts. As Sidney Dobrin and Christian Weisser (2002: 9) observe in their work on the subject, ecocomposition is a composite term for writing instruction that implicates natural environments as well as “classroom...

... neoliberal ideology affects the contemporary teaching environment for women of color teaching ideological critique. Threat Assessment Women of Color Teaching Ideological Critique in the Neoliberal Classroom Gena E. Chandler and Jennifer Sano- Franchini With the rising tide of white nationalism across...

... 150 Pedagogy more often is due to the infrastructure of the university itself. This, surely, is a testament to the immense pressures exerted by the classroom environment (133). And what does that, then, portend for contact zone theory? The class- room does not, in other words, automatically...

... 150 Pedagogy more often is due to the infrastructure of the university itself. This, surely, is a testament to the immense pressures exerted by the classroom environment (133). And what does that, then, portend for contact zone theory? The class- room does not, in other words, automatically...