I found this article interesting and valid for several reasons: first, it offers a detailed history of the two fields of ESL and compositional studies that offers much needed insight into the schism and division of these disciplines, and second,…
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Commentary Week Nine
by Mike • • 0 Comments
Commentary Week Nine Composition Wars Now I know why there is a split between the English purists (composition teachers) and ESL teachers. Teaching English composition is a culturally esteemed position. This issue is directly related, in my opinion, to Kenneth…
Commentary Hooks
by Keri • • 2 Comments
“Rebels Dilemma” By Bell Hooks “Academia was where we worked but we wanted a life on the outside. We did not want to be imprisoned in institutions of higher learning that would reward us and then demand that we stop…
Paul Kei Matsuda: Composition Studies and ESL Writing: A Disciplinary Division of Labor, a commentary
by lmarik • • 0 Comments
Where do Composition Studies and ESL Writing overlap? It seems to me that Matsuda’s main point is that we need to find the answer to this question to better provide for our second language writers. His history of the division…
Commentary Week Ten
by Mike • • 3 Comments
Mike Calou Commentary Week Ten Panopticism The reading this week reminds me of the power structure within the classroom. Using Foucault’s analysis of Jeremy Bentham’s 1785 panopticon model the tower represents the teacher. The principle of visible and verifiable power,…
Panopticon
by nweidner • • 1 Comment
Foucault shows up everywhere. I guess that’s what happens when you’re considered one of the greatest thinkers of your time. Foucault wrote this in response to Jeremy Bentham’s work in the late eighteenth century and his development of a disciplinary…
Commentary on Foucault, 4-21-09
by mgarcia5 • • 2 Comments
Foucault’s metaphor of the Panopticon is relevant to our course in an ethnographic approach to classroom observation in that it emphasizes the “disciplined” infiltration of “the all seeing eye” into society as a whole, and in particular, into the schools. …
Focoult Commentary
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Foucault Commentary “Part Three: Discipline 3. Panopticism” After reading this article I found that I was extremely bothered by this idea of the all seeing eye that can see us at all times even though we can’t…
Commentary #7 – Foucault
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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…
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…