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Anderson, Tom – Studies in Art Education, 1995
Argues that Western civilization's use of formalism in art criticism is hierarchical and eurocentric. Suggests a more anthropological approach in which production of art is considered in the context of its native culture. Recommends emphasizing the human meaning in art over consideration of form or design. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Anthropology, Art Criticism, Art Education
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Knights, Ben – Studies in Higher Education, 1995
Examination of the relationship between academic learning and group relations suggests that the study of each can inform the other. A partnership between the study of group relations and the study of literary theory could give new insights into teaching and learning as discursive practices, power relations in the college classroom, and sources of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Classroom Communication, College Environment
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Schon, Isabel – MultiCultural Review, 1995
Describes several noteworthy books about Latinos that contrast cultures, explain a unique Mexican and Mexican American celebration, explore the debate over illegal immigration, and convey the quandaries of adolescence. Several publications are considered inferior because they disregard the Spanish language and present negative historical…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Book Reviews, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Education
Reinarman, Craig – Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, 1991
A survey of approximately 60 college faculty members in several disciplines, all opposed to the Persian Gulf War, demonstrates their commitment to bringing the Gulf Crisis into the classroom democratically, not as an attempt to mobilize antiwar sentiment, but as an exercise in critical thinking. (SLD)
Descriptors: Activism, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Critical Thinking
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McWilliam, Erica – Interchange, 1996
Explores the relation between gender and pedagogy, examining the importance of gendered bodies in the construction of the great teacher as a cultural phenomenon. The paper discusses the gendering of the slippage between great and abusive pedagogy, investigating whether male diction must become malediction when women instigate powerful pedagogical…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women
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Bernal, Ernesto M.; Valencia, Richard R. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2000
Reviews major issues germane to the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) case. Discusses the second wave of Texas standards-based reform that would institutionalize retention for students failing a state-mandated achievement test, proposed federal legislation limiting use of high stakes tests, and psychometric and policy lessons learned from…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Black Students, Court Litigation, Criticism
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Townsend, Barbara K.; Twombly, Susan B. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1998
Addresses current literature on organizational change and leadership in the community college through a feminist perspective. Notes the ability of community colleges to serve as agents of change in improving women's conditions. Contains 31 references. (YKH)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Community Colleges, Educational Environment
Porter, Robert; Yellow Bird, Michael – Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, 2000
The development of a new Indigenous Nations Studies program at the University of Kansas is described. Success depended on a critical mass of Indigenous and non-Indigenous faculty and students that had a sense of political and social justice and understood the need for institutional change. The biggest challenge was countering the entrenched…
Descriptors: American Indian Studies, College Programs, Criticism, Educational Objectives
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O'Flahavan, John; Wallis, Judy – Voices from the Middle, 2005
In this article, the authors discuss how Louise Rosenblatt's work influenced many teachers' teaching and learning practices. Rosenblatt was known for helping readers find their rightful place in the act of reading. Louise argued in the 1930s (and steadfastly maintained until her recent death) that the act of reading was a dynamic transaction…
Descriptors: Democracy, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response, Context Effect
Benton, Michael – 1993
The institutional view of literature in the National Curriculum of Great Britain shows a dramatic belittlement in its revised version. It lacks a coherent literary or pedagogical rationale and substitutes a functional one in which over-simplification purports to be clarification. The institution is primarily concerned to define English literary…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adolescent Literature, British National Curriculum, Childrens Literature
Vavrus, Michael – 1995
This paper offers a commentary, by a representative of the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education, on the Holmes Group publication (1995) titled "Tomorrow's Schools of Education." The Holmes Group is applauded for producing a much-needed, candid assessment of schools of education. The issue of marginal…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Critical Thinking, Criticism, Educational Assessment
Chambers, Cynthia M. – 1992
Western European forms of discourse have been foisted upon the world as the universal value-neutral reference point. External standards have been used to assess aboriginal discourse, particularly in public contexts such as schools and courtrooms. These standards assume that there is one single correct way to proceed (to talk, write, argue, teach),…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Canada Natives, Cognitive Structures, Cultural Differences
Langer, Judith A. – 1991
Concerned with redefining instructional theory related to the teaching and learning processes in literature, this paper concentrates on articulating principles underlying literature instruction that can be taught in methods courses and that can become the framework that teachers internalize and use to make daily decisions about their teaching and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Critical Reading
Gatto, John Taylor – 1992
The five essays in this book criticize the "deadening heart" of compulsory state schooling, described as a series of assumptions and structures that stamp out the self-knowledge, curiosity, concentration and solitude essential to learning--a system wherein education and schooling are mutually exclusive terms. The book argues that between schooling…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Compulsory Education, Conformity
Armbruster, Bonnie B.; Anderson, Thomas H. – 1984
In an investigation of the characteristics of "considerate" text, defined as informative, content area text that promotes student comprehension, learning and remembering, this report presents a prototypical chapter of considerate text on American history following the Revolutionary War and a commentary on the writing. Beginning with the…
Descriptors: Coherence, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Expository Writing
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