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June 11, 2008
Reading:
- Chapter 11 of the Ramsden book.
- Sommers, N. (1982). Responding to student writing. College Composition and Communication, 33(2), 148-156.
- Strickland, R. (1990). Confrontational pedagogy and traditional literary studies. College English, 52(3), 291-300.
Writing:
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There is no new writing assignment for today’s class, but please review and make sure that you are up-to-date with respect to all the previous writing assignments for the Dialogue Forum and for the Bibliography project. If you are hoping to have some feedback from me on a current draft of your teaching philosophy statement or syllabus, it would be best to have it to me this week.
The final date for submitting completed course work is Monday, June 30.
If you would like to know more about confrontational pedagogies:
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The following articles use something similar to the idea proposed by Strickland. Marcroft is mentioned at the end of Strickland’s article as a member of the group with which he developed his ideas. Jakubowski, who also refers to Marcroft, has worked closely with York sociologist Livy Visano. Recently they have published a book on the topic of Teaching Controversy (LC 191 J34 2002)
Marcroft, M. (1990). The politics of the classroom: Toward an oppositional pedagogy. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 44, 61-71.
Jakubowski, L. M. (2001). Teaching uncomfortable topics: An action-oriented strategy for addressing racism and related forms of difference. Teaching Sociology, 29, 62-79.