Discusses leaving the old canon and creating a new curriculum encompassing more diverse interests. Argues that multicultural literature should be read because it will cause readers to come face-to-face with their own values in a way which will either cause those values to change or cause readers to become more aware of them and more reflective of…

Demonstrates how five daytime television shows present American values regarding love and sex, money and materialism, and shame and guilt. (DD)

Examines the ways in which television situation comedies exploit, yet contain, the feminist movement. (DD)

Author criticizes the educational reformers who, through changes that they advocate in the college classroom, would like to execute a significant radical gesture calculated to shake the entire American system." (Author/DR)

Proposes a shift in the focus of literary studies to emphasize practical criticism and critical reading of literature within the context of social values. (RL)

Identifies a number of the major aspects of social class that freshman composition addresses in its aims of enabling students to think and write in ways that will make them good citizens of the academic (and larger middle class) community and viable candidates for good middle class jobs upon graduation. (TB)

The best literature dealing with the Holocaust assumes the worthwhileness and preciousness of human life. (JH)

Contends that communications textbooks uncritically accept and teach conformity, political passivity, and acceptance of the status quo. (JH)

Describes an integrated interdisciplinary humanities course. (JH)

Schools can best inculate critical habits of mind by devoted, exciting teaching of the disciplines. (JH)