Some Notes on

Hogan, Robert F.

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ERIC Number: ED170774

Record Type: RIE

Publication Date: 1979-Feb

Pages: 14

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Some Notes on "Hunting for Mushrooms in the Slough of Despond."

Hogan, Robert F.

In this series of aphoristic remarks about the situation of English teachers in the junior college, the following topics are discussed: administrative structure and accountability; teacher load; part time instructors and professionalism; Proposition 13; literacy and junior college students; evaluation of student papers; careerism in teachers and students; teacher morale; and teachers' perception of the professional situation, including proposals for change. (DF)

Descriptors: College Faculty, English Education, English Instruction, Grading, Literacy, Part Time Faculty, Student Teacher Relationship, Tax Allocation, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Morale, Teaching Conditions, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on English in the Two-Year College (14th, Orlando, Florida, February 8-10, 1979)