Activism+and+Pedagogy

=Summaries and Notes for an exam in Composition Pedagogy: Intersections of Pedagogy and Social Movements=

Background Readings
Dewey, John. Democracy and Education.. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education. New York: The Free Press, 1966.

Gramsci, Antonio in Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. New York: International Publishers, 1971.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Trans. Myra Bergman Ramos. New York: Continuum, 1970.

Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso, 1987.

Marx, Karl. Capital. Vol. 1. Trans. Ben Fowkes. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.

Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire Of Louis Bonaparte. New York: International Publishers, 1963.

Scott, James. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. Reprinted ed. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Marxism and the Interprepation of Culture. Ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1988. 271- 313.

Rubin, Gayle. "The Traffic in Women.. Notes on the Political Economy of Sex."

Social Movements and their Histories
Anzaldua, Gloria and Analouise Keating. This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation. Routledge, 2002.

D'Emilio, John and Estelle Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. U of Chicago Press, 1997.

Echols, Alice. Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism from 1967-1975. U of Minnesota P, 1989.

Evans, Sara. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. Vintage, 1980.

Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. Columbia UP, 1993.

Mohanty, Chandra. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke UP, 2003.

Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. Penguin, 2006.

Warner, Michael, ed. Selections from Fear of a Queer Planet. U of Minnesota P, 1993.

Critical, Feminist, and Queer Pedagogies
Ackelsberg, Martha A. "Communities, Resistance, and Women's Activism: Some Implications for a Democratic Polity." Women and the Politics of Empowerment. Ed. Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1988. 297-313.

Alexander, Jonathan. Sexuality, Literacy, Pedagogy. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2008.

Alexander, M. Jacqui. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Duke UP 2006.

Batsleer, Janet, Tony Davies, Rebecca O'Rourke, and Chris Weedon. Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class. New York: Methuen, 1985.

Boler, Megan. Deomocratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.

Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. Basic Books, 1976.

Brady, J, and A. Hernandez. "Feminist Literacies: Towards Emancipatory Possibilities of Solidarity." Critical Literacy: Politics, Praxis, and Postmodern. C Lankshear and Peter McLauren, eds. Albany: SUNY P, 323-334.

Bizzel, Patricia. Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness. U of Pittsburg P, 1992.

Britzman, Debrah. "Is there a Queer Pedagogy?: Or, Stop Reading Straight!" Educational Theory 45.2 (1995): 151-165.

Berlant, Lauren. The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship. 1997.

D'Emilio, John. Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. New York: Rutledge, 1992.

Ellsworth, Elizabeth. "Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy." Harvard Educational Review 59 (1989): 297-324.

Fishman, Stephen M., and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy. "Teaching for Student Change: A Deweyan Alternative to Radical Pedagogy." College Composition and Communication 47.3 (October 1996): 342-66.

Freedman, Carl. "Marxist Theory, Radical Pedagogy, and the Reification of Thought." College English 49 (1987): 70-82.

Gallagher, Chris. Radical Departures: Composition and Progressive Pedagogy. Urbana: NCTE, 2002.

George, Ann. "Critical Pedagogy: Dreaming of Democracy.” A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. Ed. Gary Tate, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. 92-112.

Giroux, Henry. “Beyond Neoliberal Common Sense: Cultural Politics and Public Pedagogy in Dark Times,” JAC 27: 1-2 (2007): 11-61.

Giroux, Henry. “Higher Education Under Siege: Implications for Public Intellectuals,” Thought and Action (2006): 63-78.

Giroux and McLauren. Selctions from Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural. Studies. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Greenbaum, Andrea. Emancipatory Movements in Composition: The Rhetoric of Possibility. Albany: SUNY P, 2002.

Hernandez, Adriana. Pedagogy, Democracy, and Feminism: Rethinking the Public Sphere. Albany: SUNY P, 1997.

hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge, 1994.

Isaacs, Emily J. and Phoebe Jackson. Public Works: Student Writing as Public Text. Boynton/Cook, 2001.

Jagose, Annemarie. Queer Theory: An Introduction. New York UP, 1997.

Jarratt, Susan C. "Feminism and Composition: The Case for Conflict." Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Gesa E. Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, and Mary P. Sheridan-RabideauUrbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2003.

Kumashiro, Kevin. Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Antioppressive Pedagogy. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Luke, C. and Jenifer Gore, eds. Feminisms and Critical Pedagogy. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Malinowitz, Harriet. Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities. Heinemann, 1995.

Martindale, Kathleen. "Theorizing Autobiography and Materialist Feminist Pedagogy." Canadian Journal of Education (1992): 321-340.

Messer-Davidow, Ellen. Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse. Duke UP, 2002.

Naples, Nancy, ed. Teaching Feminist Activism: Strategies from the Field. Routledge, 2002.

Pinar, William. Queer Theory and Education: Studies in Curriculum Theory. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

Plummer, Ken. "Speaking Its Name: Inventing Lesbian and Gay Studies." In Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experience. Ed. Ken Plummer. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Rhodes, Jacqueline. Radical Feminism, Writing, and Critical Agency: From Manifesto to Modem. SUNY P, 2004.

Riedner, Rachel. Democracies to Come. Lexington Books, 2008.

Ritchie, Joy. "Confronting the 'Essential' Problem: Reconnecting Feminist Theory and Pedagogy." JAC 10 (1990): 249-74.

Shlasko, G.D. "Queer (v.) Pedagogy." Equity & Excellence in Education 38.2 (2005): 123-134.

Seitz, David. "Hard Lessons Learned since the First Generation of Critical Pedagogy." College English 64.4 (March 2002): 503-512.

Shor, Ira. Empowering Teaching: Critical Teaching for Social Change. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.

Shor, Ira. Critical Teaching and Everyday Life. U of Chicago P, 1987.

Singer, Jessica. Stirring Up Justice: Writing and Reading to Change the World. Heinneman, 2006.

Spurlin, William J, ed. Selections from Lesbian and Gay Studies and the Teaching of English: Positions, Pedagogies, and Cultural Politics. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2000.

Thelin, William H. "Student Investment in Political Topics." College English 69.2 (Nov. 2006): 142-149.

Warner, Michael. The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999.

Watney, Simon. "School's Out." Inside/Out. Ed. Diana Fuss. Routledge, 1991.

Weisser, Christian. Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies and the Public Sphere. Southern Illinois UP, 2002.

Welch, Nancy. Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World. Boynton/Cook, 2008.

Wiegman, Robyn. "Feminism's Apocalyptic Futures." New Literary History 31.4 (2000).

Worsham, Lynn. "Writing Against Writing: The Predicament of Ecriture Feminine in Composition Studies." Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Gesa E.

Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, and Mary P. Sheridan-RabideauUrbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2003.

Yep, G, K Lovaas, and J Elia, eds. Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s). New York: Haworth Press, 2004.

Yin-Kun Chang. "'Can Queer Pedagogy Be Articulated from a Position of Radical Democracy?': The Spatial Performance of Democracy in Cyberspace."

Yoon, K. Hyoejin. "Affecting the Transformative Intellectual: Questioning 'Noble' Sentiments in Critical Pedagogy and Composition." JAC 25.4 (2005).

Yoshino. Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Human Rights. Random House, 2006.

Brodkey, Linda. Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only. Minneaplolis: University of Minnesota P, 2002.
 * Public Encounters**

Cheney, Lynne. Telling the Truth. Touchstone, 1996.

de Russy, Candace. "'Revolting behavior': The irresponsible exercise of academic freedom." Chronicle of Higher Education. Mar 6 1998, B9.

Duggan, Lisa. The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.

Giroux, Henry. “Academic Freedom Under Fire: The Case for Critical Pedagogy,” College Literature 33:4 (Fall 2006), pp. 1-42.