基本説明
This work intervenes in debates about the future of English studies as business interests reach deeper into the domains of higher education. The essays address historical and theoretical questions about the relationships among management pressures, disciplinarity, and curricula.
Full Description
This book intervenes dramatically in current debates about the future of English studies as business interests reach deeper into the domains of higher education. By recognizing that economic pressures keenly manifest themselves in curricula, writers in this book explore possibilities for curricular reform in English in order to serve the interests of students, teachers, and local communities.
Contents
1. English Incorporated: An Introduction, David B. Downing, Claude Mark Hurlbert & Paula Mathieu; I. Disciplinary Revision and Curricular Reform for the 21st Century; 2. Beyond Disciplinary English: Integrating Reading and Writing by Reforming Academic Labor, David B. Downing; 3. "A Blow is Like an Instrument:" The Poetic Imaginary and Curricular Practices, Charles Bernstein; 4. Corporate Textbook Production, Electronic Resources, and the Responsible Curriculum, Deborah Holdstein; 5. Accountability and the Conditions for Curricular Change, Richard Ohmann; II. The Curricular Politics of Local, Regional, and National Differences; 6. Excavating the Ruins of Undergraduate English, Bruce Horner, Kelly Latchaw, Joseph Lenz, Jody Swilky & David Wolf; 7. "No Chains Around My Feet, But I'm Not Free:" Race and the Western Classics in a Liberal Arts College, Pancho Savery; 8. A Symposium on "What Will We Be Teaching?: International Revisions in University Level English Curricula," David Stacey, Claire Woods & Rob Pope; 9. Curriculum for Seven Generations, Derek Owens; III. Places of Writing in the English Curriculum; 10. Concentrating English: Disciplinarity, Institutional Histories, and Collective Identity, Amy Goodburn & Deborah Minter; 11. Changing the Program(s): English Department Curricula in the Contemporary Research University, James Seitz; 12. Composition and Rhetoric, Inc.: Life After the English Department at Syracuse University, James Zebroski; IV. New Missions: The Impact of Technology, Service, and the Vocationalizing of Higher Education; 13. Technological Imbalances: The English Curriculum and Distance Education, Joyce Neff & Juanita Comfort; 14. The Great Work: Recomposing Vocationalism and the Community College English Curriculum, Daniel Collins; 15. Service Learning as the New English Studies, Ellen Cushman; 16. Collaborative Learning Networks: A Curriculum for the 21st Century, James Sosnoski, Patricia Harkin & Ann Feldman; Afterword, Paula Mathieu & Claude Mark Hurlbert
