... popular culture. In Teaching Social Conflict in Turk- ish American Studies, finally, Stephanie C. Palmer interrogates how Ameri- can problems can induce non-American students to forget about their own historical, ideological, and political dilemmas. Palmer offers methods of con- textualizing social...

...Gerald Graff Symposium Teaching the Conflicts at Twenty Years Conflicts over Conflicts Steve Benton It has been eighteen years, actually, since Gerald Graff first suggested that schools should teach conflicts. This pedagogical proposal, now Graff s call- ing card, made its first, rather humble...

...Danielle Barrios-O’Neill In recent decades, Belfast writer Ciarán Carson has emerged as one of the most inventive of contemporary literary voices, in part for his unique style of textualizing space. Driven in some ways by the very specific technological challenges of the conflict zone of Troubles...

...Missy Watson This article analyzes two of the inevitable messes of translingual scholarship and teaching in composition studies: the criticism that arose from cross-disciplinary conflict with second language writing and the semantic ambiguities that result from the–ism in translingualism...

...Steve Benton Symposium Teaching the Conflicts at Twenty Years Conflicts over Conflicts Steve Benton It has been eighteen years, actually, since Gerald Graff first suggested that schools should teach conflicts. This pedagogical proposal, now Graff s call- ing card, made its first, rather humble...

... straight to the conflicts surrounding students' lives—that is, the tensions bubbling up on college campuses. In this article, I reflect further on the origins of this assignment and give an overview of the engaging topics students choose to explore. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Work Cited...

...Craig Stroupe Symposium Teaching the Conflicts at Twenty Years Conflicts over Conflicts Steve Benton It has been eighteen years, actually, since Gerald Graff first suggested that schools should teach conflicts. This pedagogical proposal, now Graff s call- ing card, made its first, rather humble...

... of tension for students who are frontline workers are the expectations of self-advocates and their parents, and the conflicts in values that may surface when serving a multicultural population in a large urban area. Disability studies courses provide a safe place for students to raise and examine...

... the controversy around Yamanaka’s work to “teach the conflicts” of literary studies. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Blu’s Hanging Lois-Ann Yamanaka Association for Asian American Studies controversy Hawai’i Filipino American Japanese sexual predation close reading Works Cited Chan...

...Dana Kinzy; Deborah Minter This essay explores the underlying dynamics that inform postsecondary English teacher development efforts. In particular, it argues for a more expansive understanding of “context” in order to emphasize the inevitability of conflict and the productive potential...

...Gary Totten Edith Wharton's lack of recognition as a short story writer depends on several factors, including conflicting theories about short story form and technique, her relationship to literary and cultural history, and her use in literature classrooms. Her problematic relationship to the short...

...Emily Isaacs Fueled by disciplinary disagreements and resource fights, comp/lit conflicts continue. However, productive collaboration is possible and an opportunity remains in developing general education writing courses. A general education course in teaching writing through literature is argued...

...Jane Tompkins Symposium Teaching the Conflicts at Twenty Years Conflicts over Conflicts Steve Benton It has been eighteen years, actually, since Gerald Graff first suggested that schools should teach conflicts. This pedagogical proposal, now Graff s call- ing card, made its first, rather humble...

...Jeffrey Wallen Symposium Teaching the Conflicts at Twenty Years Conflicts over Conflicts Steve Benton It has been eighteen years, actually, since Gerald Graff first suggested that schools should teach conflicts. This pedagogical proposal, now Graff s call- ing card, made its first, rather humble...

...Robin Valenza Symposium Teaching the Conflicts at Twenty Years Conflicts over Conflicts Steve Benton It has been eighteen years, actually, since Gerald Graff first suggested that schools should teach conflicts. This pedagogical proposal, now Graff s call- ing card, made its first, rather humble...

...David R. Shumway Symposium Teaching the Conflicts at Twenty Years Conflicts over Conflicts Steve Benton It has been eighteen years, actually, since Gerald Graff first suggested that schools should teach conflicts. This pedagogical proposal, now Graff s call- ing card, made its first, rather...

..., and there's kind of like a trumped-up study around it.” There's nothing inherently suspicious or conflict-laden in Eleanor's identification of a common misperception about literary study among ILC students. However, as the conversation continues, we can see how the TAs’ shared anticipation of student...

... offers readers three focal themes or “fruits” that thread themselves throughout the essays: the ability of women’s rhetoric to extend beyond the borders of traditional rhetorical con- tent, practice, and context; the rhetorical value of conflicting perspectives; and, finally, the interrelatedness...

...: University of Chicago Press. ____. 1992 . Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education . New York: Norton. ____. 2003a . Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ____. 2003b . “Conflict...

... recalled a course in which he was asked to write about a topic he believed conflicted with his religious beliefs. In response, Brian chose to perform neutrality in an effort to resist the instructor s learning objectives while simultaneously minimizing the negative impact on his grade. Just as scholarship...