English Education, Vol. 31, No. 2, January 1999

Table of Contents

• That's a Nice Profession for a Girl: An Editorial

  Cynthia Onore

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  Abstract: Onore reflects on how the "real world" impacts the classroom, which was once thought of as being an environment protected from the outside. The articles in this issue are about how teaching and learning connect to the larger world.

  Keywords: College

• Reflections on Standards and Standard Setting: An Insider/Outsider Perspective on the NCTE/IRA Standards

  John S. Mayher

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  Abstract: Reflects on the process of standards writing conducted by the National of Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, from both an insider and an outsider perspective. Reflects on the larger forces at play and the deeper issues which derailed the standards effort and which "produced standards that no one has much good to say for."

  Keywords: College, Standards

• Teaching the Rhetoric of AIDS: Blurring the Boundaries

  Margaret Himley

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  Abstract: Describes an upper-division English course called "The Rhetoric of AIDS," focusing on learning to read the cultural discourses of science, medicine, government, public policy, sexuality, and social justice. Discusses classroom discussions, teaching collectives, collective educational projects for the rest of campus, and community-service projects, all within a framework of scholarly inquiry.

  Keywords: College

• Integrated Curriculum and Service Learning: Linking School-Based Knowledge and Social Action

  Kathleen Kesson and Celia Oyler

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  Abstract: Discusses accomplishments of students in Miami Middle School and High School in northeastern Oklahoma, who with the help of teachers are linking their lived experience, school-based learning, and new-found activism through the medium of a service-learning project. Discusses the history of Tar Creek, now designated as the nation's worst hazardous-waste site, where these students live.

  Keywords: College, Social Justice / Activism

• Whole Language, Whole School, Whole Community: Truths and Consequences

  Cynthia Onore

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  Abstract: Discusses disciplinary actions against the principal of a small, suburban elementary school in Westchester County, New York, from several vantage points: the legal story, the whole-language story, the leadership story, and the school in the community story. Discusses the struggle of public schools both to constitute and to relate to the policies and lived practices of a democracy.

  Keywords: College, School-Community Relation

• News and Notes

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  Abstract: Available in print version only.

  Keywords: College

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