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Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Goebel, Bruce A., Ed.; Hall, James C., Ed. – 1995
Based on the idea that expanding the literary canon has to mean more than simply incorporating "nontraditional" texts into literature courses, this book presents essays that address such issues as text selection, course design, and the effects of multicultural literature on students of color. After an introduction by the editors, the…
Descriptors: College English, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Brannon, Lil, Ed.; Greene, Brenda M., Ed. – 1997
This volume, the fourth in a series, brings together the conversations of the profession that were explored during the 1993 and 1994 Summer Institute for Teachers of Literature. This anthology of essays considers what "American literature" is and how definitions of this category affect teaching practices. The essays argue for the…
Descriptors: Authors, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict, Curriculum Development
Berlin, James A., Ed.; Vivion, Michael J., Ed. – 1992
This book opens up ways of teaching and devising programs which place the students' cultural experiences at the center of language production and consumption. It provides concrete models of cultural studies programs and classrooms for high school and college teachers who would like to try the "cultural studies approach." It also offers a…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Zimmerman, Enid, Ed. – 1994
This book is a compilation of year-long thematic curriculum units developed and taught by teachers participating in the third Indiana University Artistically Talented Program (ATP). Units for artistically gifted and talented students, grade 4-12, are developed along guidelines which require that they: focus on complex ideas; use themes as…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Criticism, Art Education, Art History
Anderson, Margaret L.; Brewer, Rose M.; Sokoloff, Natalie J.; Wrigley, Julia; Bonilla-Santiago, Gloria – 1997
This collection of five essays examines the ways sociology, as a discipline, currently reflects ongoing scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. In "Scholarship and the Curriculum: The Study of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class," Margaret L. Anderson argues that the study of race, class, and gender has become…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Criminology, Curriculum Development