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Using Pre-Instruction Questionnaires To Improve The Small Group Writing Class, Bryan Bardine
Using Pre-Instruction Questionnaires To Improve The Small Group Writing Class, Bryan Bardine
English Faculty Publications
Before I started teaching my two small group writing classes at Goodwill Industries of the Miami Valley, Inc., I wanted to be sure that my students would have a say in the structure of the class. I'd taught the class before, but I found that each time the needs of the students were so diverse that creating a classroom situation where they were active participants most of the time was very difficult. The first two times I taught the classes the reading levels of the students ranged from the 4th to the 10th grade, so I felt limited by what …
Reflections And Projections On American Feminism And Culture: An Interview With Gloria Steinem, Melissa Friedling, Susan L. Trollinger
Reflections And Projections On American Feminism And Culture: An Interview With Gloria Steinem, Melissa Friedling, Susan L. Trollinger
English Faculty Publications
This interview was conducted in September 1995 when Gloria Steinem visited Iowa City during her book tour for the second edition of Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. Republished in 1995, initially published in 1983, and consisting of essays first released as early as 1963, Outrageous Acts provides an occasion for us to think between decades of American feminist political, cultural, and academic endeavor. As academic feminists of the third wave, we took this opportunity to engage Gloria Steinem as a public intellectual whose cultural work calls us to interrogate both contemporary culture’s “friendly” incorporations and recent “feminist” hostile repudiations of …