Teaching Toward Freedom: Supporting Voices and Silence in the English Classroom

ISBN-13: 9780367607203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 118 str.

Geraldine DeLuca

Opis

Teaching English Toward Equanimity in the College Classroom promotes teaching and learning that celebrate diversity and community through the systematic integration of traditionally "non-academic" voices and mindfulness-based, contemplative practices.

Spis treści

Introduction. Courage Teachers

Part I.

1. Entering the University











2. Teaching Writing











3. Vernacular Voices and the Preservation of the Spirit











4. Three African American Scholars and Two African American Stories Told in the Vernacular







Part II.









5. Double Messages: The Complications of Academic Discourse, Imitation and Plagiarism







Part III









6. Embracing the Contemplative Life in the Classroom, I











7. Embracing the Contemplative Life, II











8. Danger Time and Deep Ecology

Appendix: Guided Meditations

O autorze

Geraldine DeLuca is Professor Emerita of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA.