...Donald Lazere Lazere strongly endorses Paul G. Cook's essay as a step toward rehabilitation of E. D. Hirsch's reputation in English studies and disagrees with Adam Ellwanger's attempt to do the same for Allan Bloom. The coincidence of their books' appearance has caused Hirsch to be saddled...

...Adam Ellwanger; Paul G. Cook The publication of E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind in 1987 represented an exceptional moment, an opportunity for disciplinary and institutional reflection about the role and function of English studies, rhetoric...

...E. D. Hirsch, Jr. This response by E. D. Hirsch Jr., author of Cultural Literacy , points out that despite the book's many critics and detractors, the its central claims and theories have been realized in practice, as powerfully suggested by research in cognitive science, education, and the success...

... students to perceive television as participating in what Horace Newcomb and Paul M. Hirsch call “public thinking,” the article highlights the way the PBS period drama offers students the means to engage critically and empathetically with a historically distant cultural moment. Ultimately, the author argues...

...Paul G. Cook Engaging the term rhetoricity , which refers both to Cultural Literacy as text and cultural literacy as concept, Cook claims that the most productive pedagogical component of Hirsch's proposal—the sophisticated rhetorical sensibility on which the entire conceptual edifice of cultural...

...Lorraine Clark Readers of E. D. Hirsch's work on cultural literacy may be unaware that it is informed by the same theory of interpretation proposed by his much earlier book in literary studies, Validity in Interpretation . Understanding how the concept of genre functions in both projects clarifies...

... . “The Closing of the American Mind, Revisited.” Antioch Review 56 : 371 –82. Hirsch, E. D., Jr. 1987 . Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know . New York: Random House. Hook, Sidney. 1989 . “The Closing of the American Mind: An Intellectual Best-Seller Revisited.” American Scholar...

... integrating disciplinary vocabulary into a course syllabus, using digital tools both to give students practice in applying these terms and to increase their motivation to do so. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 vocabulary poetry Wikipedia formalism romanticism E. D. Hirsch Jr. prior...

... Freire .” Language Arts 62 . 1 : 15 – 21 . Friedman Reena Sigman . 2009 . “ Clara De Hirsch Home for Working Girls .” Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia , 1 March , jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/clara-de-hirsch-home-for-working-girls . Gallagher Kelly...

... in Education 45 , no. 3 : 206 – 23 . Hirsch E. D. Jr. 2009 . The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Hirsch Edward . 1999 . How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry . New York : Harvest . Hughes Janet Dymoke...

... of then-­contemporaries Freire and Shor but also to theorists most often aligned with liberatory critical pedagogy, particularly Gramsci. In his section on the cultural politics of critical thought, Giroux includes a critique of cultural literacy theorist E. D. Hirsch’s use of Gramsci to support a conservative...

... to collapse the binary of teacher-centered/student-centered classrooms, in truth the very idea of a centered classroom. Recognizing Constraints To assume that our students share our enthusiasm for student-centered learn- ing is tempting. However, Marshall Gregory (1997), E. D. Hirsch Jr. (1998), and Edmund...

... to collapse the binary of teacher-centered/student-centered classrooms, in truth the very idea of a centered classroom. Recognizing Constraints To assume that our students share our enthusiasm for student-centered learn- ing is tempting. However, Marshall Gregory (1997), E. D. Hirsch Jr. (1998), and Edmund...

... to collapse the binary of teacher-centered/student-centered classrooms, in truth the very idea of a centered classroom. Recognizing Constraints To assume that our students share our enthusiasm for student-centered learn- ing is tempting. However, Marshall Gregory (1997), E. D. Hirsch Jr. (1998), and Edmund...

... the Representation of the Holocaust , ed. Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes, 324 - 36. New York: Modern Language Association. Wiesel, Elie. 2006 . Night , trans. Marion Wiesel. New York: Hill and Wang. Reviews Gazing into the Mirror of Wiesel’s Night...

... and in “Symposium: Revisiting the Work of Allan Bloom and E. D. Hirsch  Jr.” Even Kim Hensley Owens’s singly authored commentary is dialogic, responding to Michael Bérubé’s 2002 commentary “Teaching to the Six.” In revisiting Bérubé’s provocative essay, Hensley Owens does more than simply respond; she helps...

... Digital Rhetoric: Wikipedia, Collaboration, and the Politics of Free Knowledge.” In Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, and Politics , ed. Hirsch Brett D. , 389 – 405 . Cambridge : Open Book . Purdy James P. 2009 . “When the Tenets of Composition Go Public: A Study...

... Digital Writing, Digital Teaching, which explores issues related to teaching writing with new media for K – 12 teachers and teacher educators. E. D. Hirsch  Jr. is professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. In addition to Cultural Literacy (1987), he...

... the Sense of the Past: The Essay as Legacy of the Epigram.” In Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing: Rethinking the Discipline , ed. Lee Odell, 105 -31. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Hirsch, E. D., Jr. 1987 . Cultural Literacy:What Every American Needs to Know . Boston...

... 2009 Sy mposiu m: Revisiting the Work of Allan Bloom and E. D. Hirsch  Jr. Contributors Shafinaz Ahmed earned her MA from the Division of English...