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Bruns, Gerald L. – ADE Bulletin, 1985
Discusses the teaching of literature in an instrumentalist or bureaucratic culture. Gives examples of instrumentalist influence in the English department at the University of Iowa: changes in department offerings, the emergence of a new departmental coherence, and the concentration of literary theory in the program of comparative literature. (EL)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, College English, Educational Change, Educational History