ERIC ED416502: Teaching College English and English Education: Reflective Stories.

395 Pages·1998·3.9 MB·English

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CS 216 226
ED 416 502
McCracken, H. Thomas, Ed.; Larson, Richard L., Ed.; Entes,
AUTHOR
Judith, Ed.
Teaching College English and English Education: Reflective
TITLE
Stories.
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL.
INSTITUTION
ISBN-0-8141-5037-3
ISBN
1998-00-00
PUB DATE
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*College English; *English Instruction; *English Teacher
DESCRIPTORS
Education; Higher Education; *Professional Development;
Teacher Role; *Theory Practice Relationship; *Writing
Instruction
Educational Issues; Professional Concerns; Reflective
IDENTIFIERS
Thinking; *Teaching Perspectives
ABSTRACT
In this collection of 32 narrative essays, scholars and
teachers of English and English education share their excitement as they
reflect on their professional growth over the last 30 years. The firsthand
stories in the collection represent "a study of theory and applied theory,
grounded in personal experience and academic study over many years." The
"Surprising Myself as a
"Facing Yourself"
essays are:
(J. Tompkins);
(2)
(1)
Teacher in Houghton, America" (A. Young); (3) "Becoming a College English
Teacher--More by Accident than Design"
"On (Not) Being
(D.C. Stewart);
(4)
"
"How Do the Electrons Get Across the Two
Taken In"
(H.T. McCracken);
(5)
Plates of the Capacitor?" (D. Bleich); (6)"Teaching as a Profession" (A.S.
"I Did It My Way...With a
"Going Back" (S. Hudson-Ross);
Bayer);
(7) (8)
Little Help from My Friends" "Illiteracy at Oxford and
(P. Smagorinsky);
(9)
(10) "Disrupting the Transmission Cycle in College
Harvard" (P. Elbow);
"Out and About in English Education" (R.E.
Teaching" (G.M. Pradl);
(11)
(12) "Beyond the Obvious" (V.R. Monseau); "My English
Shafer);
(13)
"From Reading to Writing, from Elementary to
Education"
(S. Hynds);
(14)
(15) "Living with Tension: Doing English,
Graduate Students" (S. Stotsky);
(J. Milner); (16) "What's A Story?" (M.C. Savage);
"Two 'Women's
etc."
(17)
Ways of Knowing' Teaching Writing" (R.C. Grego and N.S. Thompson); (18)
"The
Teaching and Learning of English in the College Classroom: Creating a Unified
Whole" (B.M. Greene); "On English Teaching as Poetry,
'or,' Samuel T.,
(19)
You'll Never Know What Organic Unity Did for Me" (M.L. Angelotti); (20)
"Learning to Love Being a Second-Class Citizen" (W.R. Winterowd); (21)
(22) "English in Education: An English
"Falling into Narrative" (P. Donahue);
Educationist at Work" (H.M. Foster);
(23) "Downshifting to Fourth" (T.
(24) "Connecting the Teaching of Reading, Writing, and Speech in
Fulwiler);
(25) "Reuniting Grammar and
Programs for Developmental Students" (J. Entes);
(26) "Confessions of a Teacher Who Has Not
Composition" (J.L. Collins);
Learned about Teaching" (R.L. Larson);
(27) "Teaching and Learning English:
(C. Moran and "College Writing" Students); (28) "The Way I Was/The
Two Views"
Way I Am/And What I Learned in Between" (L.L. Meeks); (29) "Collaborative
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Computer Encounters: Teaching Ourselves, Teaching Our Students" (G.E.
(30) "Ideological Crosscurrents in English Studies
Hawisher and C.L. Selfe);
and English Education: A Report of a National Survey of Professors' Beliefs
(31) "Interpreting the
and Practices" (C. Dilworth and N.M. McCracken);
Reflective Stories: The Forces of Influence in Our Essayists' Lives" (R.L.
Larson); and (32) "Interpreting Stories: Rebels in the Professoriate" (H.T.
McCracken). (NKA)
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Teaching College
English and English
Education
3
CEE Monographs
Conference on English Education
The Conference on English Education is the organization within the National
Council of Teachers of English most centrally concerned with the preservice
and inservice education of English language arts teachers. Through this series
of monographs, CEE encourages discussion of critical issues in the profes-
sional development of literacy educations, including theory, policy, research,
practice, and innovation.
Series Co-editors: Robert C. Small Jr., Radford University, and Patricia P.
Kelly, Virginia Tech
CEE Executive Committee: Carol Pope, Chair, North Carolina State
University; Patricia P. Kelly, Vice Chair, Virginia Tech; Richard Harmston,
Recording Secretary, Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City; Miles
Myers, Secretary / Treasurer, NCTE; Susan Hynds, Syracuse University;
Rosalie Black Kiah, Norfolk State University; Nancy McCracken, Kent State
University; Peter Medway, Carleton University, Ottawa; Susan Ohanian,
Schenectady, New York; Maria de la Luz Reyes, University of California; Tom
Romano, Utah State University; Hephzibah Roskelly, University of North
Carolina; Bonnie Sunstein, University of Iowa; Don Zancanella, University of
New Mexico; Karen Smith, NCTE Staff Liaison
Teaching College
English and English
Education
Reflective Stories
Edited by
H. Thomas McCracken
Youngstown State University
Richard L. Larson
Lehman College, The City University of New York
with Judith Entes
Baruch College, The City University of New York
Conference on English Education
National Council of Teachers of English
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© 1998 by the National Council of Teachers of English, with the exception of the fol-
lowing essays: Mary C. Savage, "What's a Story?"; Robert E. Shafer, "Out and About
in English Education: How It Was!"; Donald C. Stewart, "Becoming an English
TeacherMore by Accident than Design." Copyright for the essays named here
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Teaching college English and English education :
reflective stories / edited by H.
Thomas McCracken, Richard L. Larson with Judith Entes ; Conference on English
Education.
cm.(CEE monographs)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
ISBN 0-8141-5037-3
1. English philologyStudy and teaching (Higher)United States.
2. English teachersTraining of.
I. McCracken, H. Thomas, 1935-
II. Larson,
.
Richard L. (Richard Leslie), 1929-
III. Entes, Judith, 1951-
IV. Conference on
.
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English Education (Organization: U.S.) V. Series.
PE68.U5T39 1998
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Contents
Foreword
Rita S. Brause
ix
Introduction
I. Ways We Have Been Affected
1. Facing Yourself
Jane Tompkins
3
2. Surprising Myself as a Teacher in Houghton, America
Art Young
10
3. Becoming a College English TeacherMore by
Accident than Design
Donald C. Stewart
21
4. On (Not) Being Taken In
H. Thomas McCracken
33
II. Going Along
5. How Do the Electrons Get Across the Two Plates of the
Capacitor? Becoming a Writing Teacher
David Bleich
49
6. Teaching as a Profession
Ann Shea Bayer
63
7. Going Back
Sally Hudson-Ross
72
I Did It My Way
With a Little Help From
8.
.
. .
My Friends
Peter Smagorinsky
82
vi
Contents
III. Finding Rewards
9. Illiteracy at Oxford and Harvard: Reflections on the
Inability to Write
Peter Elbow
91
10. Disrupting the Transmission Cycle in College Teaching
Gordon M. Pradl
115
11. Out and About in English Education: How It Was!
Robert E. Shafer
127
12. Beyond the Obvious: Connoisseurs and Critics in the
Classroom
Virginia R. Monseau
139
IV. How We See Ourselves
13. My English Education
Susan Hynds
149
14. From Reading to Writing, from Elementary to
Graduate Students
Sandra Stotsky
163
15. Living with Tension: Doing English and
Talking Pedagogy
Joseph Milner
174
V. Telling Different Kinds of Stories
16. What's a Story?
Mary C. Savage
187
17. Two Women's Ways of Knowing Teaching Writing
Rhonda C. Grego and Nancy S. Thompson
196
18. The Teaching and Learning of English in the College
Classroom: Creating a Unified Whole
Brenda M. Greene
208
vii
Contents
19. On English Teaching as Poetry, or, Samuel T., You'll
Never Know What Organic Unity Did for Me
Michael L. Angelotti
220
VI. Professional Relationships
20. Learning to Love Being a Second-Class Citizen
W. Ross Winterowd
231
21. Falling Into Narrative
Patricia Donahue
251
22. English in Education: An English Educationist at Work
Harold M. Foster
260
VII. Making Connections
23. Downshifting to Fourth
Toby Fulwiler
273
24. Connecting the Teaching of Reading, Writing, and
Speech in Programs for Developmental Students
Judith Entes
280
25. Reuniting Grammar and Composition
James L. Collins
288
26. Confessions of a Teacher Who Has Not Learned
about Teaching
Richard L. Larson
296
VIII. Finishing Touches
27. Teaching and Learning English: Two Views
Charles Moran and "College Writing" Students
309
28. The Way I Was /The Way I Am /And What
I Learned in Between
Lynn Langer Meeks
319
29. Collaborative Computer Encounters: Teaching
Ourselves, Teaching Our Students
Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe
333