... in their classrooms and that the politics surrounding their actions have become increasingly contentious, it is important to consider academic freedom from the perspective of college teachers in the United States. This essay therefore explores contemporary debates about academic freedom with respect to classroom...

.../nonnative distinction as expressed in the experiences of postcolonial writers as well as of teachers and learners of English. Literary authors discussed include Amitav Ghosh, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Michael Harnett. Case studies from the English-as-a-second-language classroom are borrowed from the fields...

... of the classroom, sees invention where I once saw only subversion. It embraces theorization over theory, an intellectual labor that goes beyond uncovering and resisting dangerous old ideas in favor of venturing and testing responsible new ones. Even today, the reigning approach...

...) The book is organized around these versions of fill-in-the-blanks. Graff and Birkenstein thus offer templates for organizing what sources say, for summarizing, for agreeing and disagreeing, even templates for classroom discussion, as in the following: “Though...

... the opportunity to acknowledge the exceptional graduate students whose comments and insights helped shape these pages — ​we used it as a way of modeling different approaches to the classroom pedagogical scene. Discourses are, according to Lacan, the very contexts in which interpersonal...

... to ask if he felt free. “I’ll be upstairs on the job hunt all afternoon,” he said after he finished cleaning the dishes. “I’m trying a different approach. They’ll never let me in a high school classroom again, so I’m thinking of taking up something unexpected.” “Like beekeeping?” I said...

... program, I saw that I had spiraled by Michael Sprinker once again, and his influence was still upon me. I cannot make the claim that we were pals. We did not engage in lively debate outside the classroom. I was far too shy for any of that. Nevertheless, there was a strong meeting...

... it was brought indicate that Horowitz’s witch- hunting of radical professors is doomed to failure? In fact, can’t his current claim simply to desire that politics of all kinds be kept out of the classroom, and that conservatives simply be given their fair chance at academic jobs, be seen as evidence...

... contributed to or blocked the empowerment or disempowerment of students. The debate was open, honest, cracking, and sharp: lots of incompatible desires and foci for political analysis of institutional politics in and outside of classrooms were on the table. The word...

...Ann S. Epstein © 2020 Ann S. Epstein 2020 Ann S. Epstein Poppies Journal Head Teacher: Bethany Falken (Recorder) Assistant Teacher: Rachel Johnson School: Sunshine Meadows Classroom: Poppies (four-year-olds) September 15, free play, house area: Eliot pushes a monster truck toward Gina...

.... Piwowar 61 He thinks about Annette, his student-teacher. She’s in her final semester at college and has been assigned to his classroom. Everything about her exudes sensual appeal, from her gorgeous Mediterranean face, lustrous auburn hair, smooth bronze...

... to master them. Where technology excites me is in the emergence of social media as an instrument of teaching. I have always wanted the classroom to be a democratic space where students learn from each other. But now the web-based classroom permits this to go 146 the minnesota review on all...

...…” I dropped my father’s valise and looked up, pasting the phone against my face. The quad was suddenly swarming with undergraduates. They surged out of classroom buildings, krill in colored T-shirts: muscles flexing, breasts bouncing, smiles flashing like newly-minted money...

.... His burrito’s the same as ever, hot above the asphalt. His children sit in a classroom he sat in. The teacher spins the globe and stops it with her longest finger. She’s picking the country where someone lives. ...

... al.'s Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teacher, Harman and Schmidt's Cogs in the Classroom Factory, and Johnson et al.'s Steal This University. 1 Three quarters had been the maximum to pass the exit exam at UC Riverside prior to the move to end the exit exam altogether. Due to student charges...

... environments in which research-creation takes place. Whether they take the form of 96 the minnesota review classrooms or libraries or galleries, parks or coffee shops, kitchen tables or bookstore shelves, such environments comprise the medium of space in which I work. Space is far from an abstraction...

... the appeal to “the pursuit-of-truth business” (20), Fish specifies that: You know you are being academic (rather than therapeutic or political or hortatory) when the questions raised in your classroom have the goal of achieving a more accurate...

...Timothy Burke © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Works Cited Bauerlein Mark . `` Liberal Groupthink is Anti-Intellectual .'' Chronicle of Higher Education . 12 November 2004 . B 6 - 7 . Bérubé Michael . What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics...

... About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and “Bias” in American Education (Norton, 2006) and Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities (U of North Carolina P, 2006). Timothy Burke is the author of Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification...

... at Cambridge University when he assigned the classroom exercises in poetry reading that led to his influential book Practical Criticism, published in 1929. William Empson, a student of Richards, was twenty-three when he wrote Seven Types of Ambiguity (1947), which became a paradigm of virtuoso close...