1st Edition
Teaching Toward Freedom Supporting Voices and Silence in the English Classroom
By Geraldine DeLuca
Copyright 2018
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
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Teaching Toward Freedom: Supporting Voices and Silence in the English Classroom promotes teaching and learning that celebrate diversity and community through the systematic integration of traditionally "non-academic" voices and mindfulness-based, contemplative practices. By examining current scholarship and discussing novels and memoirs whose power is tied to freedom of expression, this book... Read more
Introduction. Courage Teachers
Part I.
- Entering the University
- Teaching Writing
- Vernacular Voices and the Preservation of the Spirit
- Three African American Scholars and Two African American Stories Told in the Vernacular
- Double Messages: The Complications of Academic Discourse, Imitation and Plagiarism
- Embracing the Contemplative Life in the Classroom, I
- Embracing the Contemplative Life, II
- Danger Time and Deep Ecology
Part II.
Part III
Appendix: Guided Meditations
Biography
Geraldine DeLuca is Professor Emerita of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA.
