Amble Hollenhorst Dr. De Vries ENGL 5870 21 April 2009 Commentary #7 Our society is the panopticon, each individual is both a captive and an observer. We have no king, no guard that we can distinguish. Indeed, as we have…
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Class Log for 3/24/09
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Maria J. Garcia Class Log for English 5870: 3/24/09 6:10 pm- Faye distributed log notes regarding our 3/l7/09 class meeting; she goes into a review and summary of said notes From class of 3/17/09: can we be aware…
The Universal Panopticon
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James D. Dyer Dr. Kim DeVries English 5870 Spring 2009 “It programmes, at the level of an elementary and easily transferable mechanism, the basic functioning of a society penetrated through and through with disciplinary mechanisms.” I would say that…
Commentary 7
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Tina Bell English 5870 21 April 2009 Commentary 7 I do not really understand what Michel Foucault is saying. Well, this is not exactly true. I think I understand a substantial portion of what he is saying, but I am…
Acceptance
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Tina Bell English 5001 Week 8 Acceptance Approximately fifteen years ago, I taught a student, Anthony, who had anger control issues. His father was in prison for murder and his mother was a drug addict. He lived on welfare. He…
Change
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Tina Bell English 5001 2 April 2009 Commentary Week 7 Our lives, our world is becoming more global with every passing day. Technology has given us avenues of connection we could only dream of before today, and every day brings…
Midterm Question 1 Response.
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In the end, ethnology is an extremely personalized research method, and is useful specifically for that reason, but that is also its greatest weakness, so I would suggest that in addition to teachers being ethnographers in their own right, they also read many different ethnographies by others in order to get perspective on the workings of many classrooms.
Midterm response Question #5
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I am truly wondering, searching, and curious. I am not entirely sure what I am searching for either which fits in well with an ethnographic perspective. I don’t know what i have to learn, I just know that I have a lot to learn, and every opportunity that I come across, I try to learn something. This is an interesting class because if has interesting readings, and it forces me to actually examine what I and other people are doing each and every day. And then I have to try to make sense of it in a comprehensible theoretical framework…that is the hard part.
needs of our people
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Students have a hard enough time finding their identity in the academic realm without having to worry about whether or not they are going to be percieved as outsiders, foreigners, or Heaven forbid… “Wierdos.” According to Ball “It’s the way…
Teaching for Voice
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The teaching of alternative dialects of English has always been a difficult subject. Many of the teachers I have personally experienced in my early education were clearly the product of a prescriptivist “Deficit Theory” approach. (Fox 65) It wasn’t until…