Monthly Archives: November 2006

Controlled and watered down literacies in classrooms

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Michael

Clarence Fisher over at Remote Access discusses something I think is pretty important: the co-opting of cultural literacies for the classroom, without actually using them in ways they are actually used. He write about blogging, for instance, where the teacher … Continue reading →

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LeGuin on Literature and Government

Posted on November 18, 2006 by Michael

Culture Cat posted today from Ursula LeGuin’s acceptance speech for the Maxine Cushing Gray Award: There have been governments that celebrated literature, but most governments dislike it, justly suspecting that all their power and glory will soon be forgotten unless … Continue reading →

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On Chapter 2 of Changing the Subject in English Class

Posted on November 14, 2006 by Michael

Alcorn makes a strong case in this chapter that “rhetoric of discourse is libinal” (26) and that “libidinal structure is always ideological. Libidinal structures are inesapably ideological because all meanings and all feelings operate as meanings in an ideological context” … Continue reading →

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Thelin’s vision of the English Classroom

Posted on November 14, 2006 by Michael

I love it when College English and CCC come in the mail. I’ve been getting better with these journals, dropping whatever I’m doing and at least looking at the table of contents. This is an improvement over when I taught … Continue reading →

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