The difficulties and advantages of integrating feminist literary criticism into the college English curriculum are examined. It is argued that attention to the place of womem in literature would help to illuminate the human experience, a primary objective of literary criticism. (MSE)

Discusses the need for a reformed English curriculum. (HOD)

Suggests classroom strategies that make the most of language to enhance children's learning and offers guidance in developing a language policy for the classroom and the school. (HOD)

Mittins notes the value of the article by F. C. Stork (CS 715 590), adds observations about the neglect and the difficulty of English language study, and comments on Stork's suggestions for language study in secondary schools. Torbe challenges Stork's premises, raising questions about the content, objectives, value, and difficulty of language…

Urges the inclusion in planning and in-service education programs of effective ways teachers can interact with parents and students to help them understand the English language arts program. (DD)

Addresses ways of developing a curriculum of caring that helps students connect themselves to others in ever-widening circles of understanding. Describes how, through reading and discussing Walter Dean Myers'"Fallen Angels" and Oleg Yermakov's "Afghan Tales: Stories from Russia's Vietnam," students come to see two unpopular…

Discusses how various factors combined to move Chabot College, a California community college, towards creating a mission statement for all their English courses and within that context, one for their basic writing courses. Notes that the context for the creation of the mission statement includes a commitment to basic writing as a legal mandate,…

Considers the arguments for seeing work rather than response as key to the poetic experience. Explains the development of such experience in the classroom. Notes that this is worth exploring not only in terms of literacy curriculum, but with respect to curriculum as a whole, since poetry is often invoked as an important resource for the…

Reviews the 1991 position paper on the teaching of English by the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE). Notes the paper reads like an old-fashioned manifesto from an era of homogenized assumptions. Suggests a new paper should endorse the primacy of professional knowledge of English teachers in determining what should be…

Describes how the English department at Willamette University set out to revise the English curriculum as a participant in the MLA-FIPSE English Programs Curriculum Review Project. Shows how the faculty redesigned the curriculum, and shares three important ideas that might be useful to other departments undertaking similar changes. (HB)

Describes the development of a coherent international media education movement. Lists the components of the basic framework of media education today. Defines areas requiring further investigation in the field of media education, including representation, ideology, audience, and rhetoric. (HB)

Sketches a scenario describing the possible future of English studies in the United States. Discusses the sources of division and anger within the profession. Considers the obstacles that impede healthy professional conversations within departments. (HB)

Identifies the ideas of the good that organize the professional lives of English college faculty. Discusses how these ideas should help faculty to constitute their departments, colleagues, and students. Applies insights from Aristotle's "Rhetoric" to departmental discussions. (HB)

Looks at the missions and goals of the International Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English, a global multicultural network promoting communication and cooperation for international exchange of teaching practices, literature, literacy, curriculum development, and research in English. Suggests some criteria to look at when…