...Kristine Johnson Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 6, Number 1, © 2006 Duke University Press The Millennial Teacher: Metaphors for a New Generation Kristine Johnson The millennial generation has arrived in our classrooms as both...

... That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies (2004). He is currently at work on a monograph on nineteenth- century supernatural fi ction by American women and is coediting the MLA Approaches to Teaching volume on Edgar Allan Poe. 508 Pedagogy Call for Submissions Young Scholars in Writing...

... That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies (2004). He is currently at work on a monograph on nineteenth- century supernatural fi ction by American women and is coediting the MLA Approaches to Teaching volume on Edgar Allan Poe. 508 Pedagogy Call for Submissions Young Scholars in Writing...

... , ed. Cope Bill Kalantzis Mary , 9 – 38 . London : Routledge . Nicholas Arlene Lewis John . 2008 . “Millennial Attitudes toward Books and E-books.” International Journal of the Book 5 , no. 2 : 81 – 92 . Paré Anthony Smart Graham . 1994 . “Observing...

... what works skills to command the authority and identity of teacher. Kristine Johnson s commentary in this issue complements Stenberg s exploration of teacher development. In The Millennial Teacher: Metaphors for a New Generation, Johnson, a new graduate teaching assistant, tries on her own metaphors...

... and safe spaces, appealing to the widely held beliefs that millennials are being coddled in school. The September 2015 issue of the Atlantic Monthly cover article, The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, received a great deal of attention from a number of left- leaning...

... educated generation ever, according to the Pew Research Center (Parker and Igielnik 2020 : n.p.). At the same time, they're far more savvy about educational pathways, having no interest in being saddled with the incredible student loan debt millennials carry. That means they're more open to two-year...

... . “The Millennial Teacher: Metaphors for a New Generation.” Pedagogy 6 . 1 : 7 – 24 . Kameen Paul . 2000 . Writing/Teaching: Essays toward a Rhetoric of Pedagogy . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press . Kaplan Matthew 2008 . “A Research-Based Rubric for Developing...

... they do is spook people, especially their poor students. Ghosts? Come, now. Although millennialism, transnational capital, and the changing nature of the technobody of the university are all at work in the production of the discourse of ghosts, the reasons for all of this spooky...

... is to promote a creative way of teaching students how to write critically without the challenge of writ- ing academically; it teaches the professionalism of university-­level writing in a context that millennials find familiar. While undergraduate students are often intimidated by academic dis...

... in the lives of today’s Millennial Generation are substantively and culturally unique. And we argue that they need to be better understood to comprehend and to influence positively literacy development in contem- porary society.” Even if we do not want to be Facebook users ourselves, as teachers...

... practice of college students that can easily be written off as a waste of time by those outside the social network. Margaret Hagood, Lisa Patel Stevens, and David Reinking (2002: 69) suggest that “the literacies that are embedded in the lives of today’s Millennial Generation are substantively...

...) suggest that “the literacies that are embedded in the lives of today’s Millennial Generation are substantively and culturally unique. And we argue that they need to be better understood to comprehend and to influence positively literacy development in contem- porary society.” Even if we do not want...

... I will confess that I was hesitant to teach Unabridged Journals because I feared that this super-sized Plath and millennial wave of publicity would make her appear even more sensational to my students. Would the new jour- nals magnify the tendency to consume Plath as either a fascinating tabloid...

... of methodological questions and compelling realizations. For example, Ally makes an astute observation in her reflection about the difficulty she experienced, when she discusses the temporal and cultural differences she felt between herself and Preston as she worked transcribe: As a millennial, I m used to hitting...

... its own possibilities. It is not an inescap- able iron cage, nor does it offer a guarantee of salvation. Our reality, for better or worse, exists somewhere in between. In a recent conversation on the habits and tendencies of their genera- tion, the millennials, a group increasingly infamous...