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The essays in this book argue that the active learning strategies that teachers trained in composition use for their literature courses can be exported to other disciplines to enhance both teacher performance and student learning. The book provides and explains examples of those strategies and illustrates how they have been effectively used in other disciplines.
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T E AC H I N G I N T H E 21 ST C E N T U RY CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE CLASSROOM VOLUME 1 GARLAND REFERENCE LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE VOLUME 1189 TEACHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY ADAPTING WRITING PEDAGOGIES TO THE COLLEGE CURRICULUM edited by ALICE ROBERTSON and BARBARA SMITH FALMER PRESS Published in 1999 by Falmer Press A Member of the Taylor & Francis Group 19 Union Square West New York, NY 10003 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. Copyright © 1999 by Alice Robertson and Barbara Smith All rights reserved No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Teaching in the 21st century: adapting writing pedagogies to the curriculum/edited by Alice Robertson and Barbara Smith. p. cm.—(Cultural studies in the classroom; vol. 1) (Garland reference library of social science; SS 1189) Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 0-8153-3152-5 (alk. paper) 1. English language—Rhetoric—Study and teaching. 2. Interdisciplinary approach in education. 3. Curriculum change. I. Robertson, Alice. II. Smith, Barbara. III. Title: Teaching in the twenty-first century. IV. Series. V. Series: Garland reference library of social science; v. 1189. PE1404.T394 1999 808'.042’07–dc21 99–32108 CIP ISBN 0-203-90502-4 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-90595-4 (Adobe eReader Format) Contents Series Editor’s Foreword Amitava Kumar Preface Pat Belanoff Acknowledgments Introduction Alice Robertson and Barbara Smith 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Teaching from Within: Meshing Interdisciplinary Learning and Writing Pedagogy in a University Seminar Program It Came from Aristotle: Teaching Film with Rhetoric Why Lecture? Using Alternatives to Teach College Mathematics Experiences with Writing Assignments in Upper-Division Computer Science Courses Informing Our Values and Sexual Behavior through the Use of Writing Communities Students Writing the Ghetto into Short Fiction: An Experiment in Teaching (Literary) Analysis Teaching Literature As/Is a Process Role-playing in the Interdisciplinary Classroom Performing Politics: Poetry in a Writing Classroom A Pedagogy of Community and Collaboration: A Beginning v vii ix xiii xv 1 15 29 49 67 81 97 123 135 153 vi 11 Contents Authority, Collaboration, and Ownership: Sources for Critical Writing and Portfolio Assessment 181 Interpretive Communities: Making Use of Readings and Misreadings in the Literature Classroom and Elsewhere 201 Read, Write, and Learn: Improving Literacy Instruction Across the Disciplines 213 14 Emerging Meaning: Reading as a Process 227 15 Critical Theory: A Jump Start and Road Map for Student Writers 239 Teaching, Writing, Changes: Disciplines, Genres, and the Errors of Professional Belief 257 The Tie That Binds: Toward an Understanding of Ideology in the Composition and Literature Classrooms (and Beyond) 279 Blurring Boundaries: Rhetoric in Literature and Other Classrooms 297 The ComPosition-ing of Culture and Anarchy