Teaching American studies : state of the classroom as state of the field /

"This collection of twenty essays by new and established American studies scholars presents a wide array of actual classroom experiences and teaching methods, as well as the solutions that they and other American studies teachers have devised to meet the myriad challenges facing the field. Teac...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Duclos-Orsello, Elizabeth Ann (Editor ), Entin, Joseph B. (Editor ), Hill, Rebecca Nell, 1969- (Editor ), Ferguson, Roderick A. (writer of foreword.), Chuh, Kandice, 1968- (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Teaching > Methodology.
HISTORY / Study & Teaching
Education
Teaching > Methodology
United States > Study and teaching.
États-Unis > Étude et enseignement.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: How Pedagogical Practice Defines American Studies
  • Part I. Behind the Syllabus: Planning and Transforming Whole Courses
  • 1. Course Objectives: On Resisting Solutions to the "Race Problem" in the Southern STEM Classroom
  • 2. Teaching an Introductory Master's Degree Course
  • 3. Teaching the Medical Other: Thinking beyond Assumptions through the History of Midwifery
  • 4. Always the Good Guys: Latinx Studies and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
  • Part II. Unpacking the Familiar, Introducing the New: Teaching Key Texts and Terms
  • 5. When an Old Assignment Becomes New Again: Teaching Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter
  • 6. Coalition Time in the American Studies Classroom
  • 7. Teaching American Studies One Word at a Time
  • 8. Our "Positive Obsession": Teaching Interdisciplinary American Studies through Octavia Butler's Life and Work
  • Part III. Individual Assignments: Challenges, Adjustments, and Innovations
  • 9. Teaching Theory in American Studies: Efforts at Unsettling Home in Three Assignments
  • 10. Reppin' American Studies: Asian Pacific Islander American Studies and Popular Culture as Pedagogy
  • 11. "Mister, How Come We Never Learned This?": Teaching American Studies in a High School Setting
  • 12. Let This Seminar Be a Starting Point: Digital Storytelling and the African American Experience
  • Part IV. Movements and/in the Classroom: Affect, Students, and Shifting Boundaries in American Studies
  • 13. "Gonna Stomp Some Rump": Embodied Learning and the Politics of Pleasure
  • 14. Don't Look Away: The Bodies of American Studies
  • 15. Making American Studies Great Again?: Teaching the Nation under Trumpism
  • 16. #BlackLivesMatter and Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching a Movement Unfolding
  • Part V. American Studies Outside: Rethinking the Classroom and Sites of Learning
  • 17. Obama Loves Sweet Potato Pie: American Studies at a Food Service Training Academy
  • 18. Ruined for Life: Cocreation, Service-Learning, and Taking American Studies Scholarship Seriously in an American Studies Intro Course
  • 19. Monumental Protest
  • or, Remaking Places through AR
  • 20. "The Walk of Memory": An Excursion into Race, Place, and History in the (Southern) American Studies Classroom
  • Afterword
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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