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Cantor, Paul A. – Public Interest, 1993
Offers a critique of contemporary American Shakespeare criticism in higher education. Argues that the current movement, called New Historicism, pursues its political analysis of Shakespeare within the context of a narrow political agenda including issues of race, class, gender, culture, and power determined by specific contemporary concerns. (JB)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Old English Literature
Yeaman, Andrew R. J. – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 1994
Draws on anthropological, sociocultural, and literary analyses of computer use in education to argue that workers, managers, and teachers are right to resist the problems resulting from the computerizing of society. People are being educated to fit the needs of the computer, and computers are producing uniformity in education and society. (five…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Quality
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Muller-Michaels, Harro – European Education, 1991
Compares the teaching of literature in East and West Germany. Discusses both the nature and titles of the material taught and problems of teaching literature espousing individual thought and criticism in a communist system. Describes common ground in the literature curriculum of both that may serve as a basis for curriculum of unified Germany. (DK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Wiley, Ed, III – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1993
Examines Houston Baker's argument for rap music's place in academe. Baker suggests rap as being one of the most creative and productive forms of cultural expression to come along in some time warranting the same kind of scholarly attention afforded the works of history's most noted philosophers and poets. (GLR)
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Culture, Black Studies, Creative Expression
Moll, Marita – Education Canada, 1999
Challenges the assumption that new technologies in the classroom are superior to traditional ones. Argues that new technologies serve business-related goals of education, which currently overshadow social and individual-development purposes of learning. Suggests that the notion that new technologies are "just a tool" is an oversimplification and…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Criticism, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
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Ladd, Helen F. – Brookings Review, 1996
Examines the effectiveness of recognition and reward programs in holding schools accountable for the academic performance, various ways of measuring student academic performance, and the effects of incentive systems on teacher morale. Issues related to evaluating recognition and reward programs and questions related to how incentive programs can…
Descriptors: Accountability, Criticism, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
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Mojab, Shahrzad – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
This chapter argues that a critical analysis of the interlocking notions of class, race, and gender is needed to enable adult education to respond to growing inequalities.
Descriptors: Criticism, Social Class, Racial Factors, Social Bias
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Miranda, Deborah A. – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
The author found "This Bridge Called My Back" at the local public library when she was, at age thirty-three, finally beginning to write again, and write honestly. There were Indian voices in "Bridge"--a few poems or personal narratives that moved her, but which barely began to represent the range of the writers or the…
Descriptors: Females, Fantasy, American Indians, Disproportionate Representation
Hansen, Tom – 1990
Many students think of poetry as a meaning to be figured out, a puzzle to be solved--as if poets were forever doomed to write only what they never quite mean and to mean what they never actually write. The struggle to discover meaning becomes acute with that distinctly modern poetry created by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and their…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading, Higher Education
Popper, Samuel H. – 1987
Based on the author's own experience as a professor of educational administration, this monograph is an argument for establishing a link between the humanities and instruction in school administration. Part I discusses the instrumental value of the humanities in administrative preparation and recounts the limitations of past attempts by the…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Education, Art History, Culture
Harrington, David V. – 1986
Although modern readers often find the interpretation of medieval literature difficult, they should be encouraged to use their imagination to resolve the dilemmas they encounter. Often, these are the same issues with which medieval audiences had to wrestle and which the poets intended to raise. W. Iser's and H. R. Jauss's principles of…
Descriptors: Allegory, Audience Participation, Ballads, Higher Education
Pinkstaff, Elizabeth – 1982
An analysis of four writers' portrayals of nineteenth and early twentieth century working class life reveals a progression of political thought about the treatment of people's struggles to effectively change society. In Dickens'"Hard Times" (1854), the protagonist is a martyr-saint who finds solace in subduing his anger and continuing to…
Descriptors: Characterization, English Literature, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
Comprone, Joseph J. – 1985
A theory of interpretation developed from the composition scholar's reading and revision of literary theory can effectively serve as a core theory in writing across the curriculum programs. For example, recent composition theory, with its emphasis on close study of students' texts and the process of their writing, provides the writing teacher with…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Learning Theories
Raburn, Josephine – 1982
Ghost stories are most appealing in early adolescence, from the ages of 11 to 14 years. They are a natural for use with gifted children because they depend entirely upon language for their effect. The high interest they hold for a young person because of their subject matter also makes them a possibility for reluctant readers. As a psychological…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education
Twining, James E. – 1976
A child's sense of involvement in story and desire to meaningfully experience literature must be sustained and promoted if the problem of "literacy" is to be resolved. Four activities, designed as a series of stages, can enhance the literary experience of children. The first activity is reading to children--exposing them to the language…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Evaluative Thinking, Language Arts
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