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DOCUMENT RESUME 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 NOTE 394p. AVAILABLE FROM National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No. 50373-3050; $24.95 members, $32.95 nonmembers). General (020) Collected Works Books (010) PUB TYPE MF01/PC16 Plus Postage. EDRS PRICE *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 +++++ ED416502 Has Multi-page SFR---Level=1 +++++ 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) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * * from the original document. * ******************************************************************************** I 1 I I 1 1 I a N Ws, PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS f Educational Research and Improvement Office BEEN GRANTED BY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION I CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality I TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES 1 INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Points of view or opinions stated in this 1 document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2 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 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801-1096 5 Excerpt from The Family Reunion: A Play, copyright 1939 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace and Company. Excerpts from "The Hollow Men," "Ash Wednesday," and "The Wasteland" in Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace and Company, copy- right ©1964, 1963 by T. S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of the publisher. NCTE Editorial Board: Pat Cordeiro, Colette Daiute, Bobbi Fisher, Brenda Greene, Richard Luckert, Bill McBride, Al leen Pace Nilsen, Jerrie Cobb Scott, Karen Smith, ex officio, Michael Greer, ex officio Prepress services: City Desktop Productions, Inc. Staff Editor: Zarina M. Hock Interior Design: Doug Burnett Cover Design: City Desktop Productions, Inc. NCTOE Stock Number: 50373-3050 © 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 resides with the author or the estate of the author. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. It is the policy of NCTE in its journals and other publications to provide a forum for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and the teaching of English and the language arts. Publicity accorded to any particular point of view does not imply endorsement by the Executive Committee, the Board of Directors, or the membership at large, except in announcements of policy, where such endorsement is clearly specified. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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) p. 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 . . English Education (Organization: U.S.) V. Series. PE68.U5T39 1998 428'.0071'173dc21 98-4862 CIP V 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

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