The legacy of the New Critics, including its historically male-dominated canon of poets, continues to hold influence, in part because its methods of reading preside over many college classrooms. New Critical readings stress careful explications, based solely on the evidence offered in the lines of the poem. This way of reading encourages careful…

Autobiographical writing can, by its nature as expressive discourse, connect to the residual orality and literacy that students possess before they enter college writing classes, because it crosses more easily between the spoken word and the written word than other forms of writing. Adapting the Ong-Havelock orality-literacy thesis to writing…

Recently some psychologists have shown a renewed interest in the relationship between cognition and emotion and have begun to examine the relationship between the representation and processing of factual and emotional information. To investigate the role of emotional state in personal memory retrieval, a study was undertaken to replicate and…

This paper describes "currere", a method of critical reflection upon educational experience devised by William Pinar and Madeleine Grumet. In teacher education, this autobiographical method is employed to reveal how the classroom situation is determined by the kinds of questions asked of it. The methodology is related to dominant themes…

The following question is posed: can a close look into why a person does something which is uncharacteristic or out of character provide a window through which one might view underlying dynamics of that person's ongoing character development? An autobiographical account is provided. (Author/BJG)

This autobiography of a woman physical education instructor covers the developments in her field from 1924 to 1954. The increasing interest in physical education for women, the changing attitudes and values over these years, and the growth of physical education organizations are the major themes in this book. (JD)

Approximately 160 books, published between 1825 and 1967, dealing with American Indian literature, history, and culture are presented for teachers and students of American Indian Culture in this annotated bibliography. The bibliography is divided into six content areas, including: (1) literature written by Indians or taken directly from their oral…

Assembled as a preliminary list of publications concerning Georgia journalism, this selected, annotated bibliography is intended to be useful to secondary teachers interested in history and journalism, to be helpful to students and scholars of mass media, and to indicate some obvious gaps in the literature of journalism as it pertains to the state…

Developed for a high school quinmester unit on nonfiction, this guide provides the teacher with teaching strategies for an introduction to nonfiction as a form of writing dealing with truth, facts, and ideas. Various classifications of nonfiction are investigated, including the biography, the essay, and true tales of great adventure, with required…

This study is part of a long-range effort to identify the psychological processes in adults that influence how they relate to children and that play a role in determining what kinds of children they are likely to work with most effectively. Previous studies have suggested that a valuable source of information may lie in adults' recollections of…

Written by a cerebral palsied man with severe speech and physical handicaps, the fictional account reveals the poverty, attitudes, cultural mores, and problems of a large working class family in Dublin. The narrator of the autobiographically-based novel is cerebral palsied although the handicap is only treated incidentally throughout the book. The…

A bibliography by over 100 chief executive officers of colleges and universities written during or after their tenure is presented. Some are autobiographical, some analytic; others are studies, reports, collections of speeches, and committee analyses of public problems. A few are novels or parables. (Author/MLW)

Describes four types of book talks based on the aspect of the book that is the most important--plot summary, character description, short story or excerpts, and mood-based. (Author/EM)

Annotates picture books, stories for intermediate readers, stories for older readers, folklore, and books of interest to adults. (RBW)

Staff reviewer of the "Horn Book" describes how her love of books came about. (CRH)