Search Results for social change

... (accessed 18 May 2005). Tucker Teaching Race to Students 133 Teaching Race to Students Who Think the World Is Free: Aging and Race as Social Change Terrence Tucker The time has finally come. In my composition class one day, I ask my stu- dents to write either guilty or not guilty after I put two letters...

... for social justice in their new community. Students wrote in multiple genres as they attended the meetings and events of different groups involved with environmentalism, food justice, adjunct rights, and more. As students connected their social-change work to the classroom, they learned more about different...

...Rachel Boccio This essay addresses education's paradoxical binding to disciplinary and hierarchical formulas and to social change and personal transformation, an irony uniquely extreme within the prison classroom. It juxtaposes two pedagogical models — one conventionally liberal, the other...

... for how to involve students in curating digital exhibits using library special collections, to explore the role of literary and popular texts in social change. Such projects offer student opportunities to understand cultural history in more complex ways, to develop the ability to collaborate effectively...

... Labour,” Charles Dickens's Hard Times , and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech by Muhammad Yunus can be used in the classroom to encourage students to broaden their understanding of wealth, power, and class and to suggest that they, in their professional lives, may be agents of social change...

... and social justice by illustrating how relying on rhetoric as a hope and means for positive change can undermine aims of social justice and a critical education. By examining the queer (non)possibilities for assessment and acceptance without dependence on constant improvement and success, instructors may...

... and Social Welfare 25 , no. 5: 155 -76. Morton, Keith. 1995 . “The Irony of Service:Charity, Project, and Social Change in Service-Learning.” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 2 : 19 -32. Morton, Keith, and John Saltmarsh. 1997 .“Addams, Day, and Dewey: The Emergence of Community...

..., and educators need to teach those values and be confident in them. Bracher drew upon psychoanalytical theory and criticism to argue for social change through the education of the emo- tions and student identity structures. In his new book, Literature and Social Justice, Bracher builds upon...

... : 1241 – 99 . Crosswhite James . 2013 . Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Cushman Ellen . 1996 . “ The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change .” College Composition and Communication 47 , no. 1 : 7 – 28...

... scientific concepts, but like research papers in composition classes and term papers in many other humanities classes, these laboratory assignments rarely engaged students in authentic research. Works Cited Cushman Ellen . 1996 . “ The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change .” College...

.... 2001 .“Untested Feasibility: Imagining the Pragmatic Possibility of Paulo Freire.” College English 63 : 612 -32. Shor, Ira. 1992 . Empowering Education:Critical Teaching for Social Change . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Shor, Ira, and Paulo Freire. 1987 . “Do First-World Students...

... . The Language of Experience: Literate Practices and Social Change . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press . Green Ann E. 2003 . “ Difficult Stories: Service-Learning, Race, Class, and Whiteness .” College Composition and Communication 55 , no. 2 : 276 – 301 . Hacker Diana...

... engagement. Professor Finn s courses emphasize writing for social justice and exploring ways to accomplish social change. Alexandra M. Hill is professor of German at the University of Portland, where she directs the German program and codirects gender and women s studies. She teaches all levels of German...

... commitments to social change “must occur at the affective level” (216). To fail to recognize our affective experience in the classroom is to prohibit the project of social change. Recognizing the place of “the tight braid of affect and judgement” places teacher and student in a collaborative project...

... . Radulescu Raluca Truelove Alison , eds. 2006 . Gentry Culture in Late-Medieval England . Manchester : Manchester University Press . Riddy Felicity . 1996 . “ Mother Knows Best: Reading Social Change in a Courtesy Text .” Speculum 71 : 66 – 86 . Scanlon Larry , ed. 2009...

...: University Press of Kentucky. Moore-Gilbert, Bart. 1997 . Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics . London: Verso. Said, Edward. 1979 . Orientalism . New York: Vintage. Shor, Ira. 1992 . Empowering Education:Critical Teaching for Social Change . Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

...: University Press of Kentucky. Moore-Gilbert, Bart. 1997 . Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics . London: Verso. Said, Edward. 1979 . Orientalism . New York: Vintage. Shor, Ira. 1992 . Empowering Education:Critical Teaching for Social Change . Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

...: University Press of Kentucky. Moore-Gilbert, Bart. 1997 . Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics . London: Verso. Said, Edward. 1979 . Orientalism . New York: Vintage. Shor, Ira. 1992 . Empowering Education:Critical Teaching for Social Change . Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

... of social change in several readings by McLaren. But the participants felt implicated in his lament that mainstream educators tend to domesticate Paulo Freire s critical teachings by decontextu- alizing them from Freire s larger political project of struggling for the realiza- tion of a truly socialist...

... , no. 6 : 520 – 24 . Shaughnessy Mina P. 1977 . Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing . New York : Oxford University Press . Shor Ira . 1992 . Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...