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The Strange And Surprising World Of Curriculum Reform And Its Consequences For Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ann Campbell
The Strange And Surprising World Of Curriculum Reform And Its Consequences For Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ann Campbell
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
Despite every conceivable obstacle, including innumerable departmental, college, and university committees seemingly created for the sole purpose of impeding change, both my university’s core curriculum and my department’s literature curriculum have in the span of the last two years been dramatically revised, or "reformed" as the university refers to the process, for the first time in thirty years. I have regarded this strange and surprising process with alternating wonder, anxiety, disorientation, and denial, much like Robinson Crusoe when he is first stranded on his island. Although neither "savages" nor "wild beasts" threatened me, I felt wholly isolated as our university’s …
"Falling Out Of A Picture": The Australian Landscape In D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo, Cheryl Hindrichs
"Falling Out Of A Picture": The Australian Landscape In D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo, Cheryl Hindrichs
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
"[T]he mind and the terrain shape each other: every landscape is a landscape of desire to some degree, if not always for its inhabitants"
Rebecca Solnit (Landscapes 9)
Modernist writers, captivated by the work of mapping the complex terrain of desire, present a variety of encounters with, studies on, and reinventions of the landscape. Although critical attention has focused on the fláneur in the cityscape, a focus on pastoral and hybrid (suburban) landscapes can reveal the way modernism engages with these terrains in order to "make it new" in aesthetics (the mythical method T.S. Eliot identified with James Joyce's …
How Educators Use Policy Documents: A Misunderstood Relationship, James E. Fredricksen
How Educators Use Policy Documents: A Misunderstood Relationship, James E. Fredricksen
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
As an English educator and co-director of a National Writing Project site, I have had many conversations with colleagues and educators who are anxious about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) being adopted in so many states throughout the nation. The anxiety comes in many forms, ranging from "What do the CCSS mean for what and how I have to teach?" to "What does the drafting and implementation processes of the CCSS suggest for how people view me as a professional?" to "Are the CCSS really any good?" and so on. As I listen to all the people I work …