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Direct linkShafer, Gregory – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
This essay is about the process of discovering and trying to help an exceptional student who was grappling with issues of real-life violence and incarceration and the desire to articulate their meaning to his life through writing. It describes how this student empowered himself to reflect on and deconstruct the meaning of his incarceration and how…
Descriptors: College Students, English Instruction, Higher Education, Violence
Peer reviewedShafer, Gregory – English Journal, 2001
Describes the author's experiences teaching composition to inmates at a women's minimum security prison. Describes how these students wrote with alacrity and passion, using writing as a tool to solve problems and enlighten. Discusses how mandated curriculum and assignment requirements were met, revisions made and issues of dialect discussed, while…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correctional Education, Curriculum, Females
Peer reviewedShafer, Gregory – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 2000
This article recounts the author's experiences with students in a Writing Center, and examines the troubles of traditional teaching styles that reflect the notion of a single norm of thought and experience. Asserts that prescriptive writing instruction stymies personal and scholastic development and undermines democratic learning. Contains 12…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Learning Strategies, Student Needs
