Obscene Pedagogies

Obscene Pedagogies
Author: Carissa M. Harris
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501730428

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In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.

Medieval Sex Lives

Medieval Sex Lives
Author: Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2023-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501771884

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Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music and poetry was composed and performed. In a focused analysis of the Oxford Bodelian Library's Douce 308 manuscript—a fourteenth-century compilation that includes over five hundred Old French lyrics composed over two centuries alongside a narrative account of elaborate courtly festivities centered on a week-long tournament—Elizabeth Eva Leach explores two distinct but related lines of inquiry: first, why the lyric tradition of "courtly love" had such a long and successful history in Western European culture; and, second, why the songs in the Bodleian manuscript would have been so important to the book's compilers, owners, and readers. The manuscript's lack of musical notation and authorial attributions make it unusual among Old French songbooks; its arrangement of the lyrics by genre invites inquiry into the relationship between this long musical tradition and the emotional and sexual lives of its readers. Combining an original account of the manuscript's contents and their likely social milieu with in-depth musical and poetic analyses, Leach proposes that lyrics, whether read or heard aloud, provided a fertile means of propagating and enabling various sexual scripts in the Middle Ages. Drawing on musicology, literary history, and the sociology and psychology of sexuality, Medieval Sex Lives presents a provocative hypothesis about the power of courtly songs to model, inspire, and support sexual behaviors and fantasies.

Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning

Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning
Author: Bonny Norton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2004-01-26
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521828023

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This volume applies the critical pedagogical approach to the area of language learning, and in doing so, it addresses such topics as critical multiculturalism, gender and language learning, and popular culture.

A Guide to Composition Pedagogies

A Guide to Composition Pedagogies
Author: Gary Tate
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780199922161

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A Guide to Composition Pedagogies is the essential bibliographic guide written for newcomers to the field. This best-selling guide familiarizes writing instructors with the current topography of Composition Studies and directs them to the best books and articles for further exploration.

Red Pedagogy

Red Pedagogy
Author: Sandy Grande
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780742518292

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This ground-breaking text explores the intersection between dominant modes of critical educational theory and the socio-political landscape of American Indian education. The proposed new Red Pedagogy is an insurgent but poetic vision for education, one that is dedicated to the principles of sovereignty, emancipation and equity-for all human beings and the rest of nature.

Anarchist Pedagogies

Anarchist Pedagogies
Author: Robert H. Haworth
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1604861169

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Education is a challenging subject for anarchists. Many are critical about working within a state-run education system that is embedded in hierarchical, standardized, and authoritarian structures. Numerous individuals and collectives envision the creation of counterpublics or alternative educational sites as possible forms of resistance, while other anarchists see themselves as “saboteurs” within the public arena—believing that there is a need to contest dominant forms of power and educational practices from multiple fronts. Of course, if anarchists agree that there are no blueprints for education, the question remains, in what dynamic and creative ways can we construct nonhierarchical, anti-authoritarian, mutual, and voluntary educational spaces? Contributors to this edited volume engage readers in important and challenging issues in the area of anarchism and education. From Francisco Ferrer’s modern schools in Spain and the Work People’s College in the United States, to contemporary actions in developing “free skools” in the U.K. and Canada, to direct-action education such as learning to work as a “street medic” in the protests against neoliberalism, the contributors illustrate the importance of developing complex connections between educational theories and collective actions. Anarchists, activists, and critical educators should take these educational experiences seriously as they offer invaluable examples for potential teaching and learning environments outside of authoritarian and capitalist structures. Major themes in the volume include: learning from historical anarchist experiments in education, ways that contemporary anarchists create dynamic and situated learning spaces, and finally, critically reflecting on theoretical frameworks and educational practices. Contributors include: David Gabbard, Jeffery Shantz, Isabelle Fremeaux & John Jordan, Abraham P. DeLeon, Elsa Noterman, Andre Pusey, Matthew Weinstein, Alex Khasnabish, and many others.

Educating Activist Allies

Educating Activist Allies
Author: Katy M. Swalwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2013-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113630584X

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A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013! Educating Activist Allies offers a fresh take on critical education studies through an analysis of social justice pedagogy in schools serving communities privileged by race and class. By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an urban private academy and a suburban public school, Katy Swalwell helps educators and educational theorists better understand the challenges and opportunities inherent in this work. She also examines how students responded to their teachers’ efforts in ways that both undermined and realized the goals of social justice pedagogy. This analysis serves as the foundation for the development of a curricular framework helping students to foster an "Activist Ally" identity: the skills, knowledge, and dispositions necessary to negotiate privilege in ways that promote justice. Educating Activist Allies provides a powerful introduction to the ways in which social justice curricula can and should be enacted in communities of privilege.

Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages

Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2022-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004517030

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This collection presents fresh evidence and new perspectives on the diverse ways in which women created and interacted with cultures of song between c. 600 and c. 1500.

Revolutionary Multiculturalism

Revolutionary Multiculturalism
Author: Peter Mclaren
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2018-02-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429977220

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This work by one of North America's leading educational theorists and cultural critics culminates a decade of social analyses that focuses on the political economy of schooling, Paulo Freire and literacy education, hip-hop culture, and multicultural education. Peter McLaren also examines the work of Baudrillard as well as Bourdieu's reflexive sociology.Always in McLaren's work is a profound understanding of the relationship among advanced capitalism, the politics of knowledge, and the formation of identity. One of the central themes of this volume is the relationship between the political and the pedagogical for educators, activists, artists, and other cultural workers. McLaren argues that the central project ahead in the struggle for social justice is not so much the politics of diversity as the global decentering and dismantling of whiteness. This volume also contains an interview with the author.

Pedagogies of Religious Education

Pedagogies of Religious Education
Author: Michael Grimmitt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Christian education
ISBN: 9780855976217

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'Pedagogies of Religious Education' brings together in a single volume the most important and influential research and developmental work in R.E. undertaken in the past twenty-five years. For the first time, it provides trainee and practising teachers of RE in primary and secondary schools with an invaluable resource for acquiring an informed understanding of the range of styles of learning and teaching which are available to them.