Archive for February, 2006

education as a tool of dominant culture, or, alteratively, how we use education to quell the rebelliousness within us

I’m beginning to think that, throughout time, education has been used to actually squelch rebelliousness and societal change, not to promote it, as humanists and liberal arts proponents might argue. Of course, education is not a totalitarian system meant to squelch all opposition, but for the most part, I am beginning to wonder if it [...]

Education, Irenicism

an addendum to copywrite

Now playing: “Ghetto Defendant” by The Clash. I thought you should all check this out from Culture Cat (copied in whole because of my laziness): Copyright and Scholarly Publishing: Author’s Addendum Recently, Jill posted about a very handy Author Addendum (PDF) that you can present to publishers when you’re asked to sign over copyright. The [...]

Uncategorized

rhetoric portal on wikipedia

Keith and Derek came over, and we watched Billy Elliot, which I hadn’t seen since it came out in 2000. It’s amazing how much different my viewing was six years later. My understanding of gender, class, and symbolism is so much deeper than when I was a sophomore undergraduate. What a good movie. As the [...]

Wikipedia

a note to myself to read this

http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/jon1.htm

Hyptertexts, Polyphony, Queer issues and theory

safe space for men to talk

Privilege Judo had a post (with comments) awhile ago noting how there aren’t men’s spaces for non-reactionary men to discuss oppression and freeing people of oppression. I concur. Though, I wonder if this is a start (Barometer article from Thursday): Speaking the unspoken language of men at OSU A new four-part series of dialogues will [...]

Gender

blogging at U of Minnesota

via CultureCat, a Minnesota Daily article on blogs in the classroom.

Blogs in Classrooms

the idea of a writing center

In his essay “The Idea of a Writing Center,” Stephen M. North sets forth to change others’ conceptions of what a writing center is and should be. He claims that teachers’ views of the writing center as a place to fix errors shows that teaching pedagogy has actually “fundamentally changed very little” (72). The prevailing [...]

Writing Center

Discussion in the classroom

I feel like I can foster pretty good discussions in the classroom, and many students will talk and share. I feel like I’m really good at using silence and paraphrasing what students have said. However, I’ve also started to realize that all discussions are filtered to me. Students talk to me, rather than too each [...]

Teaching Composition

I-thou relationships and I-it relationships

I cannot remember the author who came up with the I-thou and I-it relationships, but it’s usually used in regards to stereotypes and prejudices. For example, instead of viewing someone as an person of a certain race and base my judgments solely upon that (an I-it relationship), I should view them as a whole person [...]

Arguments (nature of?)

working with theses in the writing center

Last week I talked to Lisa Ede about some of my frustrations with working on a thesis with a student. She suggested, for this student in particular, that I ask what her research question is, because Lisa suspected she didn’t have one as of yet. So I asked, and after pointing out of a few [...]

Writing Center