...Catherine Gubernatis Dannen This article argues that popular sports media (such as websites, TV shows, and tweets) can be used in the freshman composition classroom to introduce students to academic argument and to encourage them to reimagine their own writing styles. Because sportswriters...

... on teaching philosophy and class- room practice, I urge teacher educators to encourage preservice teachers in their classes to explore how such discourse reflects and affects their teaching selves. Collins Teaching Sports Literature in the Academy 281 Reflections on Teaching Sports Literature in the Academy...

... on teaching philosophy and class- room practice, I urge teacher educators to encourage preservice teachers in their classes to explore how such discourse reflects and affects their teaching selves. Collins Teaching Sports Literature in the Academy 281 Reflections on Teaching Sports Literature in the Academy...

... on teaching philosophy and class- room practice, I urge teacher educators to encourage preservice teachers in their classes to explore how such discourse reflects and affects their teaching selves. Collins Teaching Sports Literature in the Academy 281 Reflections on Teaching Sports Literature in the Academy...

... on teaching philosophy and class- room practice, I urge teacher educators to encourage preservice teachers in their classes to explore how such discourse reflects and affects their teaching selves. Collins Teaching Sports Literature in the Academy 281 Reflections on Teaching Sports Literature in the Academy...

..., the French Revolution, and nuclear fission, but not about cars, clothing fashions, dating, sports, TV, or Bible Belt religion and we thereby overlook the intel- lectualism latent in supposedly philistine pursuits. In a recent book titled Street Smarts and Critical Theory: Listening to the Vernacular, Thomas...

... Sports and the Life of the Mind Sports Media in the Freshman Composition Classroom Catherine Gubernatis Dannen In the previous essay, my colleague Daniel R. Mangiavellano discusses how using Pride and Prejudice in the composition classroom can inspire students to start thinking...

... Sports and the Life of the Mind Sports Media in the Freshman Composition Classroom Catherine Gubernatis Dannen In the previous essay, my colleague Daniel R. Mangiavellano discusses how using Pride and Prejudice in the composition classroom can inspire students to start thinking...

... Sports and the Life of the Mind Sports Media in the Freshman Composition Classroom Catherine Gubernatis Dannen In the previous essay, my colleague Daniel R. Mangiavellano discusses how using Pride and Prejudice in the composition classroom can inspire students to start thinking...

.... “ ‘I Am Elizabeth Bennet’: Defining One’s Self through Austen’s Third Novel.” Pedagogy 4: 119 – 24. doi 10.1215/15314200-1625307 Mangiavellano    Pride and Prejudice in the Composition Classroom  555 Sports and the Life of the Mind Sports Media in the Freshman Composition...

... they might be, is nevertheless unsettling. According to Graff, teachers tend to ignore the intellectualism of stu- dents who (1) have interests not traditionally seen as academic (e.g., cars, sports, and fashion trends), or (2) fail to use academic discourse to articulate their interests (e.g., criticizing...

...-century British literature at Purdue University. Her dissertation, Sports, Physical Fitness, and the Creation of the New Woman in Nineteenth-Century Britain, analyzes the New Woman of late-nineteenth-century Britain and the role sports and physical fitness had in creating that cultural phenomenon. She...

... surrounded by more typical peers tuning the teacher out. It is easy to teach those who will themselves become teachers, much harder to instruct those who fi nd the classroom a fundamentally uncon- genial space. My colleague Murray Sperber, in his recent Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports...

... and Communication 28 : 317 -20. Sperber, Murray. 2000 . Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education . New York: Henry Holt. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 5, Number 2, © 2005 Duke University Press 317...

... and Communication 28 : 317 -20. Sperber, Murray. 2000 . Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education . New York: Henry Holt. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 5, Number 2, © 2005 Duke University Press 317...

... and Characterizing Team Resilience in Elite Sport .” Psychology of Sport and Exercise 14 . 4 : 549 – 59 . Quigley Martin Bailey Thomas W. 2003 . Community College Movement in Perspective: Teachers College Responds to the Truman Commission . Lanham, MD : Scarecrow . Resilient Design...

... and political influence of African Americans as sports figures. I ask students to consider the reason Mos Def selects a sports figure of the 1910s as the focus of a contemporary rap song. Why not a political or religious leader in the African American community? This leads to a spirited discussion...

... a powerful motivator for learning. Readings That Do and Don t Stick Professional selections in the Concise Guide represent a range of author- ship including writer Annie Dillard; well-known editors Anastasia Toufexis and Peggy Orenstein; sports reporter Mariah Burton Nelson; screenplay writer and director...

... a powerful motivator for learning. Readings That Do and Don t Stick Professional selections in the Concise Guide represent a range of author- ship including writer Annie Dillard; well-known editors Anastasia Toufexis and Peggy Orenstein; sports reporter Mariah Burton Nelson; screenplay writer and director...

... a powerful motivator for learning. Readings That Do and Don t Stick Professional selections in the Concise Guide represent a range of author- ship including writer Annie Dillard; well-known editors Anastasia Toufexis and Peggy Orenstein; sports reporter Mariah Burton Nelson; screenplay writer and director...