An uncertainty has developed around the "core technology" of preparing educational leaders, making the general public question whether, in particular, university professors know what they are doing. This sense of ambiguity can also be found within the professoriate, where questioning of the knowledge base, standards, pedagogy, and university…

This article examines three novels which use stories of elves--especially the ballad "Tam Lin"--as pre-texts, and contemplates how they explore the issue of Otherness. The three novels are "The Sterkarm Handshake" by Susan Price, "Cold Tom" by Sally Prue, and "Fire and Hemlock" by Diana Wynne Jones. Although the novels seem to be about elves as…

This essay argues that digital storytelling is a hybrid, multimedia narrative form that enables critical and creative theorizing. As an assets-based social pedagogy, digital storytelling constructs a safe and empowering space for cross-cultural collaboration and learning. As illustration, the essay analyzes in detail one student story, using as…

The collection of articles in featured in the special issue of the "College English" focus on the virtues of rhetorical analysis in understanding global concerns. In this article, the author offers her views about these articles. The author contends that neither feminism nor rhetorical analysis should be considered mere supplements in the study of…

The terms "meaning" and "significance," as they relate to literary criticism, are considered in the first section of this paper. The paper then examines the meaning of "hermeneutics," the classical discipline concerned with the understanding of texts; introduces the "isomorph" construct; and demonstrates the…

The poet always listens to himself or herself as part of the expressive act that is the poem, and that listening becomes an essential part of the completed poem. The listening is never fused into the expressiveness of the poem's making, however, but continues in a dramatic relationship with that expressiveness. The difficulty of poetry stems from…

Analyzes the writings of E. D. Hirsch, Jr., concluding that stability of meaning is inescapably a function of the perceived accuracy of an interpretation; it is not an intrinsic feature of the text. (DD)

Discusses the presence of a diabolical tempter in several works of Utopian fiction. (DD)

The role of the humanist as interpreter of cultural documents is defined and discussed. (DB)

Provides a stanza by stanza rhetorical analysis of Housman's To An Athlete Dying Young" to illustrate the use of rhetorical analysis as a basic tool in literary analysis. (AN)

Presents an analysis of the rhetorical strategy of Shaw's Saint Joan" and analyses some of the qualities that serve to make the play endearing to readers and audiences today. (AN)

Theory and practice in intercultural education remain problematic as they continue to reflect the tensions between universalistic and particularistic agendas. Particularism is manifested in a culturalist narrative which is mired in a failure to subject relativistic postmodernism to adequate critique. At the same time, universalism is frequently…

This study focused on terms anchored in special education and associated stigma of disability in schools. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ensured the right to education in US public school systems for students with disabilities. An associated term asserted that children with disabilities must be educated in the least restrictive…