This ethnographic study examines the negotiation of the value of critical thinking by a group of community college students and their instructor in a required general education literature course. Using a sociological analysis, the authors explore how the students situated themselves as both learners and consumers in the classroom, a social field…

One teacher's experience in teaching a difficult subject is discussed. (CK)

Argues that although Ben Jonson and Jonathan Swift were, for their respective ages, conservative, orthodox thinkers who defended traditional values of limit, order, and moderation, the strategies, tactics, and tone of their attacks on Puritanism and dissent were radical, even militant, and thus violated their conservatism. (DMM)

Examines the relationship between Hamlet's commitments to the past and his failure to translate these commitments into action, as he permits himself to be deflected by preoccupation with the future consequences of his action. Cites supportive evidence from the text. (DMM)

Suggests that trainers of English teachers should restore ties with their rhetorical and philological origins (i.e., with the living language). Stresses the importance of the sound of the language and of cultural "touchstones." Feels that English teachers should learn to commemorate the expansiveness and generosity of their profession's heritage.…

Author points out two major difficulties with Emma" as an assignment: information (social facts, physical facts) needed to understand the setting and events, and the problem of making possible some relationship with so unreforming a work. (Author/MB)

Describes Dartington Hall School in Devon, England, which between the 1920s and 1970s implemented an educational system combining traditional Hindu religious philosophy and ideals of living and Western scientific knowledge and work experience. Considers ways Dartington educationally and socially resembled Aldous Huxley's utopia in…

Focuses on two of the proposed schemes in the International Baccalaureate Program's "The World Literature Teachers' Guide" (Geneva, 1972): that which examines the emergence of the individual in the Renaissance and the concept of the Absurd in contemporary literature. (Author/RK)

Program author describes is in English literature but the general principles of organization illustrated by the model are, with specific modifications, applicable in the design of Doctor of Arts programs in any field. (Author/CB)