... . Textual Power:Literary Theory and the Teaching of English . New Haven, Conn.:Yale University Press. ———. 1998 . The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English As a Discipline . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. Seitz, James E. 1999 . Motives for Metaphor:Literacy, Curriculum Reform...

...), that we replace our canon of literary texts with a canon of methods for working with texts. His broad idea is brilliantly illustrated and theorized in James Seitz s Motives for Metaphor: Literacy, Curriculum Reform, and the Teaching of English (1999), arguably the most important work...

... curriculum reform. In fact, the HWI recently added a fourth graduate TAship that will be devoted entirely to curricular reform. More broadly, because the business school is by far the largest school in the university, we believe that by improving writing there, we improve the image of the university...

...: Literacy, Curriculum Reform, and the Teaching of English . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Vatz, Richard. 1973 . “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 6 : 154 – 61. Wallace, David, and Helen Ewald. 2000 . Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition...

...-focused curriculum” when considering reforms to developmental education. Roberts also calls for the use of “validating practices” in the classroom to honor the intersecting positionalities and identities of students. Culturally relevant assignments are important in the corequisite curriculum...

...Lisa Nienkark During the past decade, much reform has taken place within reading and writing developmental education at community colleges. One area of reform has focused on reducing the number of developmental education credits taken while accelerating the students’ literacy growth. This article...

...: Historical and Polemical Essays . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Downing, David. 2002 . “Beyond Disciplinary English: Integrating Reading and Writing by Reforming Academic Labor.” In Beyond English Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy , ed. David B. Downing, Claude Mark Hurlbert...

... Costume, H.E. 483, College of Human Ecology Records, Box 381, Folder 26, Michigan State University Historical Collections, East Lansing. Muncy, Robyn. 1991 . Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 . New York: Oxford University Press. New London Group. 2000 . “A Pedagogy...

...: A curricular reform of the magnitude sug- gested by multiculturalism requires a pedagogical reform of equal magnitude (194). The relationship of subject and teaching is complicated in composi- tion, a field whose scholarship, Brodkey contends, has typically chosen peda- gogy over curriculum. Matters...

..., and the University , ed. Stephen M. Cohen, 134 -49. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Newman, John Henry Cardinal. 1959 . The Idea of a University . New York: Doubleday. Nussbaum, Martha. 1997 . Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education . Cambridge: Harvard University...

... to specific historical periods. While I applaud his vision of an intellectual utopia, I am not sure that he goes far enough to reform current practice. For one thing, much of what he suggests so articulately seems more apropos of a secondary-school curriculum. For another, while his curriculum would offer...

...- dent strikes for curriculum reform, most notably by students from the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front coalition in 1968 into 1969 at San Francisco State University, which resulted in the creation of the very first ethnic studies program in the United States...

...Michele Fero Duke University Press 2006 Response to Reform: Composition and the Professionalization of Teaching . By Margaret J. Marshall. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. R ev iews Recalling the Past...

...Stuart Y. McDougal In 1998, Stuart McDougal was recruited by Macalester College to create a new English department to replace one that had been decimated by a series of retirements. McDougal accepted the challenge and immediately confronted a series of questions: What should the curriculum...

... coverage scholarship workshop metacognition classroom Works Cited Berman Russell A. 2011a . “ President’s Column: An Agenda for the Future .” MLA Newsletter 43.2 : 2 – 3 . ———. 2011b . “ President’s Column: Reforming Doctoral Programs: The Sooner, the Better .” MLA Newsletter...

... of Redlands, Whitehead College, where she teaches writing, American literature, and cultural studies of the environment. Her work has appeared in College Literature, Works and Days, Postmodern Culture, and Women s Studies. She is working on a book about writing in graduate programs across the curriculum...

... Bruce Read the following reform-­minded complaint. When was the quoted section, taken from Thomas P. Miller’s latest book, written? Graduate education is failing doctoral students because they are being “trained as if they were to lecture on obscure problems of English literature to small...

... seminar stand-off that day, something which made the presence of such a course as worthwhile as it was difficult to teach” (4). Dollimore expresses for many of us the sense of teaching’s futility, when the best efforts at curriculum reform or social justice fail in the face of student resistance...

... curriculum is a welcome reac- tion to this threat, offering us not only a way to point out the deficiencies of the system but also a way to address them, through pedagogy and curricular reform. The third chapter of the book chronicles Carter’s disillusionment with critical literacy. After...

... Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Burke, Jim. 2003. The English Teacher s Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession. 2nd ed. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Chambers, Angela, Jean E. Conacher, and Jeannette...