Category Archives: English 588 Lit and Pedagogy (Summer 2006)

affect, ideology, hegemony, and pleasure…

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Michael

So, I’ve recently become interested in affect — well, not so recently, but it’s come up to the foreground again. I’d like to quote a little more from Giroux and Simon: What is particularly missing from these perspectives are questions regarding … Continue reading →

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Giroux and Simon on punk

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Michael

Giroux and Simon write about punk: …punk culture’s lived appropriation of the everyday as a refusal to let the dominant culture encode and restrict the meaning of daily life suggests the first instance of a form of reistance that links … Continue reading →

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what an awesome assignment!

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Michael

So, I’m a huge fan of writing that alters our traditional ways of constructing texts (perhaps that’s why I blog a lot, it’s remediation and often multivocal). When I taught middle school and when I student taught high school, I … Continue reading →

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Tompkins on Teaching

Posted on August 3, 2006 by Michael

I just read Tompkins’s essay “Pedagogy of the Distressed,” which, as I read, I realized I have seen quoted and heard teachers cite quite a few times. Tompkins notes that we don’t enact what we preach (106), that really, instead … Continue reading →

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on teaching “A Modest Proposal”

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Michael

While teaching Writing 121 last year, I always taught Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” — indeed, I think all the TA’s here did. I think before the students read the text I never gave them any background, except once when … Continue reading →

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