Tag: Pedagogy

+ education, jason stanley, Kristen Ghodsee, lillian e smith, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Paulo Freire, Pedagogy, ta-nehisi coates

Why Do You Fear Education?: Why We Must Imagine a New World

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“Politics is the art of the possible, but art creates the possible of politics.” Ta-Nehisi Coates writes this sentence amidst thinking about a school district in South Carolina debating whether or not to ban his book Between the World and Me and to fire the teacher, Mary, who assigned it in her Advanced Placement English course. As I reread The Message alongside Kristen Ghodsee’s Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from … Read More Why Do You Fear Education?: Why We Must Imagine a New World

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+ bikini kill, carrie brownstein, kathleen hanna, memoir, riot grrrl, salman rushdie, syllabus

Personal Memoir Syllabus

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Whenever I work on a syllabus, I always have some amorphous idea for a theme and for the texts I want to use in the course. For introductory composition courses where the goal is to teach students to write argumentative essays and move towards the incorporation of sources into their work, I always structure the course around personal narratives because, for me, starting by … Read More Personal Memoir Syllabus

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+ avengers, batman, comics, dc comics, marvel comics, superhero, superman, syllabus

“Who Watches Superheroes?” Syllabus

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Over the past few days, I’ve had to pull together a literature and composition course for the fall semester. As I thought about the course, I moved from Appalachian literature with writers such as Crystal Wilkinson, David Joy, and S.A. Cosby to mystery novels with Cosby and others to my already planned “The Reverberations of World War II” syllabus for a more introductory course. … Read More “Who Watches Superheroes?” Syllabus

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+ history, Literature, Pedagogy, syllabus, world war ii

The Reverberations of World War II Syllabus

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Since childhood, I’d been fed the constant patriotic narrative of World War II, imbibing the events in which the United States had direct involvement from Pearl Harbor to D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more. I never really veered from those stories until I started looking deeper into World War II a few years ago, specifically the connections between Jim Crow and the … Read More The Reverberations of World War II Syllabus

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+ alice walker, banned books, carmen maria machado, ernest j gaines, martin luther king, jr, syllabus, toni morrison

Banned Books Syllabus

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Book bans and challenges are nothing new; however, over the past few years, with the rise of anti-LGBTQ legislation and “anti-woke” rhetoric that has led to various bills against the teaching of “divisive concepts,” these bans and challenges have increased dramatically. Of course, as PEN American points out, “Black and LGBTQ+ authors and books about race, racism, and LGBTQ identities have been disproportionately affected … Read More Banned Books Syllabus

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