Uses M. Ibrahim Alladin's "Racism in Canadian Schools" as a catalyst for discussing some multicultural and antiracist teaching strategies employed in Ontario (Canada) high school English classrooms since the 1980s. Defines racism and outlines differences between multiculturalism and antiracism. Examines how writer John Borovilos…

Discusses William Beatty Warner's "Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation," a study of Samuel Richardson's role as eighteenth-century critic and interpreter of his own novels. Examines the treatment of character by both Richardson and Warner, focusing on Richardson's humanist interpretation and Warner's anti-humanist…

Reviews the following books on rhetoric and education: (1) Wayne Booth's anthology, "The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions"; (2) Gerald Graff's "Professing Literature: An Institutional History"; and (3) "The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education," edited by Timothy Fuller. (JS)

Discusses the use of English and Spanish children's literature in bilingual programs, reviewing 25 books that focus on elders teaching children, relationships between children and older adults, and children as helpers of older people. Using books that are related thematically gives children the opportunity to relate stories to their own lives and…

Reviews essays by Raymond Williams, which explain how, within the context of a 150-year literary history, rural stereotypes have been constructed and imbedded within a collective consciousness by a form of cultural colonization. Suggests that Williams' insights can help rural education researchers think outside the conventional wisdom that…