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Harvey J. Graff – Across the Disciplines, 2024
Scholarly disciplines are historical reservoirs riven with contradictions. Often unaware of their own history, the humanities lead in complications, with English departments outpacing other fields of study. Both writing and English language and literature studies exhibit long-standing omissions and conflicts. This essay explores their similarities…
Descriptors: Reading, Writing (Composition), Educational History, Humanities
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Chen Chen – College Composition and Communication, 2025
This Research Brief provides an overview of the current scholarship on transnational feminist rhetorics (TFR), drawing from interdisciplinary traditions. TFR inquiries should always begin with "a cogent analysis of power" (Dingo et al.), attending to how transnational power dynamics act on gendered bodies and how those bodies engage with…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Writing (Composition), Feminism, Rhetoric
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Clay, Rebecca – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2015
Can you make James Joyce's short story "Eveline" contemporary and create a modern short story based on Joyce's work? The purpose of this study was to provide a context to Joyce's short story "Eveline," illustrate the journey of my fiction writing, and expand the conversation on using classical fiction as a guide to modern short…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Twentieth Century Literature, Fiction, Creative Writing
Pahl, Ron H. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, "Breaking Away from the Textbook" offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's…
Descriptors: World History, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks
Pahl, Ron H. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Teaching history should not simply be an endless recitation of irrelevant facts, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, "Breaking Away from the Textbook" offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book instead focuses on exciting classroom activities, methods for students to…
Descriptors: World History, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks
Bartlett, Steve; Murton, Diana M. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2007
"Introduction to Education Studies" is established as the key text for undergraduate students of education studies as well as for practitioners embarking on a higher degree. The book provides a thorough grounding for students new to the subject without assuming a substantial prior knowledge of the area. It also takes a multidisciplinary approach…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Modern History, Higher Education
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Novoa, Adriana – Social Education, 2007
It can be a challenge to introduce students to a world region with the cultural diversity and rich history of Latin America. In this article, the author suggests four thematic units that enable teachers to identify both general trends and important differences in the region: (1) race/ethnicity; (2) progress and civilization; (3) conflict and…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Latin American History, Science Curriculum