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Rethinking Translingual as a Transdisciplinary Rhetoric: Broadening the Dialogic Space
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Wang, Zhaozhe – Composition Forum, 2018
This article proposes a translingual/transdisciplinary rhetoric that aims to complement, rather than confront, current discipline-specific discursive, linguistic, and cultural conventions. Specifically, the article reviews various lines of inquiry on translingualism in composition scholarship and identifies and accounts for the challenges and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Rhetoric, Writing Research, Teaching Methods
Humanities in the Aftermath: An Interview with Gary Olson
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Taylor, Todd – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2010
This article presents an interview with Gary Olson on the changing contexts of the humanities in this modern world. He emphasizes that the humanities are absolutely essential when it comes to the very real-world problems. He explains that what he is saying not just applies to terrorism and economic crisis; the humanities equip everyone to deal…
Descriptors: Humanities, Status, Higher Education, Interviews
Finding the Biases in a Community of Scholars.
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Cook-Sather, Alison; Rowe, Katherine; Shore, Elliot – Liberal Education, 2002
Describes how an interdisciplinary course at Bryn Mawr College explores the various biases that are woven into human lives and seen in texts. Students express how they learn to recognize and follow biases from which people write, and in the process, they comprehend a wide range of experience. (EV)
Descriptors: Bias, Course Descriptions, Critical Reading, Higher Education
Fostering Response to Vietnam War Literature through the Arts.
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Johannessen, Larry R. – English Journal, 1997
Describes a unit on the literature of the Vietnam War (part of a college course called "Twentieth Century War Literature") which uses the arts to enhance student learning. Discusses activities and assignments in which students create visual representations, conduct research, and prepare oral reports on the Vietnam War literature they…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Literature Appreciation
Literary Analyses of the Danish, the Greenlandic, and the Turkish Stories Used in the "Folktale Project." Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 12.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
As part of the Folktale project, which explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature from and in different cultures, advanced undergraduate students in classes on literary interpretation or literary history analyzed a Danish, a Greenlandic, and a Turkish folk tale. Two male and two female students in classes on literary…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Edited Responses to the Danish Narrative "Per Smed's Whip" from Readers in Denmark, Great Britain, India, and Nigeria in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 8.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
This paper, number eight in an ongoing series, is part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures. Presented are the written responses from 129 readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Edited Reader Responses to the Greenlandic Narrative "The Barking Ones" from Readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and Nigeria in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 9.
Bennett, Helen; And Others – 1988
This paper, number nine in an ongoing series, is part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures. Presented are the written responses from 137 readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Edited Reader Responses to the Turkish Narrative "The Golden Apple" from Readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and Nigeria in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 10.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
This paper, number 10 in an ongoing series, is part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures. Presented are the written responses from 140 readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Only Connect: Uniting Reading and Writing.
Newkirk, Thomas, Ed. – 1986
Drawn from talks given at a conference held at the University of New Hampshire in October 1984, the papers in this collection explore the relationship of composition to reading and literature studies. Following an introductory chapter written by Thomas Newkirk, which contains background information about that relationship as well as an overview of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Theories, English Curriculum, Freshman Composition