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http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog A site for open discussion about recent articles in College English, an NCTE publication Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:05:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Teaching Cross-Racial Texts: Cultural Theft in The Secret Life of Bees Laurie Grobman White author Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees employs stereotypes of African Americans and problematically appropriates features of Black writing. Nevertheless, this book is worth teaching, not only because it has acquired much cultural capital ... http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog/?p=63 Object Lessons:  Teaching Multiliteracies through the Muesum John Pedro Schwartz The author calls for incorporating into English classes what he calls museum-based pedagogy, arguing that it enables the teaching of multiple literacies: verbal, visual, technological, social, and critical.  In part, this pedagogy consists of classroom instruction that enables students to understand the ... http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog/?p=62 Stepping Outside the “Ladies’ Department”: Women’s Expanding Rhetorical Boundaries Lisa Shaver Study of the weekly Methodist newspaper Christian Advocate from its inception in 1826 to 1832 reveals that Methodist women came to assume important, public, and rarely acknowledged rhetorical roles.  More precisely, women moved beyond the confines of the newspaper’s “Ladies’ Department,” ... http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog/?p=61 Review:  Re-Telling the Composition-Literature Story Laura Brady Reviewed are Composition and/or Literature: The End(s) of Education, edited by Linda S. Bergmann and Edith M. Baker, and Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction:  First-Year English, Humanities Core Courses, Seminars, edited by Judith H. Anderson and Christine R. Farris. http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog/?p=60 Review: Historicizing Rhetorical Education Patricia Harkin Reviewed are Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States  by Jean Ferguson Carr, Stephen L. Carr, and Lucille M. Schultz; The Knowledge Contract: Politics and Paradigms in the Academic Workplace by David B. Downing; and Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres ... http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog/?p=59 In Defense of Reading Badly: The Politics of Identification in "Benito Cereno," Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Our Classroom Faye Halpern Traditionally, we English faculty have warned our students against simply identifying with a literary work’s characters. For us, such attachments constitute “reading badly.” But we engage in identifications, too, ... http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog/?p=53 Thinking Globally, Teaching Locally: The “Nervous Conditions” of Cross-Cultural Literacy Lisa Eck Teaching postcolonial literature to American college students involves taking them through a dialectical process of thinking about identification.  In the first stage, students are encouraged to note similarities between their own lives and those of the work’s characters.  With the ... http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog/?p=54 Texts of Our Institutional Lives: Studying the “Reading Transition” from High School to College: What Are Our Students Reading and Why? Allison Harl and David A. Jolliffe The authors discuss a survey of reading practices that they administered to students at their home institution, the University of Arkansas, as well as ... http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog/?p=55 Opinion: Measuring "Success" at Open Admissions Institutions: Thinking Carefully About This Complex Question Patrick Sullivan The author examines surveys indicating that in general, community college students are significantly less inclined and able than students at four-year colleges are to earn a bachelor’s degree.  He argues that it is important for teachers of ... http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog/?p=56 Review: A Massive Failure of Imagination Kurt Spellmeyer Reviewed is Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life by Anthony T. Kronman. http://www.indiana.edu/~cedialog/?p=57