...Bunkong Tuon In this article, the author discusses his experiences teaching a class on the Vietnam War, a controversial subject that divided a nation along generational, class, and racial lines. He argues that learning takes place in the encounter of differences — where students consider...

... on the Vietnam War Teaching from Many Perspectives Bunkong Tuon Allow me to share with you the following story. When I was in junior high school, I saw the filmFirst Blood (1982), and as a Cambodian refugee liv- ing with his extended family in Massachusetts, I was both horrified and, strangely...

... on the Vietnam War Teaching from Many Perspectives Bunkong Tuon Allow me to share with you the following story. When I was in junior high school, I saw the filmFirst Blood (1982), and as a Cambodian refugee liv- ing with his extended family in Massachusetts, I was both horrified and, strangely...

... the ethics, politics, history, and rhetorical strategies involved in writing the lives of others. The heart of the course was a service-learning project that introduced college juniors and seniors to veterans of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The students interviewed, wrote brief biographies...

... such topics as global feminism and the Vietnam War. This issue’s book reviews touch on the Occupy moment, the growth of literary studies, and teaching the literature of the Middle East in post-­9/11 America — truly a rich offering. We’re particularly excited to be able to bring you an eleven...

... 5 , no. 1 : 19 – 35 . Tucker Terrance . 2006 . “Teaching Race to Students Who Think the World Is Free: Aging and Race and Social Change.” Pedagogy 6 , no. 1 : 133 – 40 . Tuon Bunkong . 2013 . “Discourses on the Vietnam War: Teaching from Many Perspectives.” Pedagogy...

... photographed conflict in U.S. history, news of World War II was delivered by movie news reels, television made Vietnam the ‘living-room war’ and Desert Storm was the first war broadcast live by satellite. Histori- ans will likely remember Operation Iraqi Freedom as iWar v1.0. The Web has done more than...

... to Diversity in the English Class- room: A Case Study of Global Feminist Literature   149 Mainland, Catherine | Teaching Literature like a Foreign Language; Or, What I Learned When I Switched Departments   145 Tuon, Bunkong | Discourses on the Vietnam War: Teaching from Many...

... abilities, written about a college course on the literature of the Vietnam War (Teach- ing Hearts and Minds, 1992), and worked most recently on nonadversarial approaches to argument. Mary Lenard received her PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin, where she had her fi rst experiences...

... that are usually reserved for heterosexual white men. Bunkong Tuon is assistant professor of English at Union College, in Sche- nectady, New York. He teaches courses on ethnic literature, Asian-­American literature and history, the Vietnam War, and the works of Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston...

... and Democratic Societies: A Comparative Analysis of America's Revolutionary and Civil Wars.” Citizenship Studies 4 . 2 : 149 – 65 . ———. 2001 . “The Military Obligations of Citizens Since Vietnam.” Parameters 31 : 48 – 60 . ———. 2002 . “Theories of Democratic Civil-Military Relations...

... and Teaching , 144 -59. New York:Oxford University Press. Gregory, Marshall. 2001 . “Curriculum, Pedagogy,and Teacherly Ethos.” Pedagogy 1 : 69 -89. Kroll, Barry M. 1992 . Teaching Hearts and Minds: College Students Reflect on the Vietnam War in Literature . Carbondale: Southern Illinois...

... is “used to [the] slings and arrows” that assail his fellow Vietnamese citizens during the last days of the Vietnam War. The allusion to the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” from Hamlet's “to be or not to be” (3.1.56) speech signals that this book is in dialogue with Shakespeare's arguably most...

... for educators to fully understand and assess collaborative writing practices. Chapters 2 and 3 outline collaborative learning in writing classrooms during the Progressive Era and the Cold War; chapter 4 considers the impacts of the Civil Rights and anti–Vietnam War movements. Chapters 5 through 7 consider...

... offered a space for the sharing of stories, experiences, and memories of com- bat and military service in Vietnam, the first Gulf War, the Korean War, and other U.S. military adventures, and produced an edited volume, Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, as well as several individually authored...

...-English speakers whose Mexican parents worked the farms during harvest, a few adolescents recently arrived from Vietnam who did not recognize the English alphabet, and a smattering of students who were repeating the course for the fi rst or second time. In another class, I had three boys who had committed...

... of research when writing about other cultures. Robert speaks with his students about the challenges of rep- resenting the Vietnam War in his novel Once We Had a Country (2013), given that he has never visited Vietnam, has no family connection to the region, and is young enough not to have lived through...

... studies in the 1960s, only when different kinds of students (older, Vietnam vet, working class, female, African American, Hispanic, among other categories) entered higher education through open admission policies and when work in sociolinguistics, ethnography, and literacy occasioned newly...

... the story of Henry s death shortly after Henry has returned home from Vietnam. He begins by describing the death itself and then backtracks to establish the close bond that he and Henry shared. They worked, traveled, laughed, and fought together until Henry s psychological devastation after his captivity...

...- tion of pertinent issues regarding marginalized groups in American society. The Red Convertible concerns two Chippewa half brothers, Lyman and Henry. Lyman narrates the story of Henry s death shortly after Henry has returned home from Vietnam. He begins by describing the death itself...