Recently added articles from Transformations:
Introduction
Oct 01, 2007; ... The Spring/Summer 2007 issue of Transformations was our last general issue. Starting with this issue, we will be focusing exclusively on special topics. Issues devoted to Teaching the City, Teaching the Body, Teaching Performances, and Teaching Nation are in the works. We are thankful to our ...
THE SLIPPERINESS OF OBJECTS: Putting the Past in the Present in a Class of One Hundred
Oct 01, 2007; ... My course, "Material Culture and Everyday Life" at the University of California, Davis, elicits divergent reactions from students. Reading through my evaluations, I often feel I have taught two different lower-division courses. Some students feel the class content was "made up" and that the ...
PICTURING DIFFERENCE: Classroom Explorations of Otherness through National Geographic Images
Oct 01, 2007; ... If photographs are messages, the message is both transparent and mysterious. Susan Sontag, On Photography Liberal education is a vigorously contested concept in the post-9/11 world. Some conservative critics worry that the hegemony of left-leaning, postmodernist faculties in US ...
L'ISOLA DELLE CORRENTI1: Sicily, Photography, and the Classroom
Oct 01, 2007; ... On the furthest corner of southeastern Sicily is a place where two seas come together, their waves rolling toward the shore from separate directions, their paths finally meeting at a rocky beach called L'isola delle Conenti.Year after year, the land is worn away from two sides. Yet Sicily ...
TEACHING FASHION AND FEMINIST THEORY: The Pedagogical Promise of Ambivalence
Oct 01, 2007; ... There is an uncharacteristic enthusiasm in one set of evaluations of my women's studies courses in 2006-07. This set of fifteen or so forms is riddled with exclamation marks, smiley faces, and other articulations of student pleasure. Whereas both courses I taught that fall in the two areas of my ...
WRITING, TEACHING, AND FILMING MATERIAL LIVES: A Conversation between Ruth Behar and Circe Sturm
Oct 01, 2007; ... Ruth Behar is a poet, writer, filmmaker and one of the leading figures in contemporary cultural anthropology. Born in Havana, Cuba to Jewish parents, she left the island with her family shortly after the revolution, when she was only five-years old. They moved to Queens, New York where Ruth was ...
IMAGINING INDIAN NATIONS: Native American Self-Representation
Oct 01, 2007; ... Casino and Museum: Representing Mash-antucket Pequot Identity. JOHN J. BODINGER DE URIARTE. TUCSON: U OF ARIZONA P. 2007. Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos. MARY LAWLOR. NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ: RUTGERS UP, 2006. The ...
BETWEEN TEXTS AND MATERIAL THINGS: Using First-hand Experience to Interpret Material Culture in Teaching Religion
Oct 01, 2007; ... Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them. ROBERT A. ORSI. PRINCETON AND OXFORD: PRINCETON UP, 2005. The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism. ERNESTO DE MARTINO. TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY DOROTHY LOUISE ...
LESSONS IN MATERIAL CULTURE
Oct 01, 2007; ... An Italian American Odyssey, Life line filo della vita: Through Ellis Island and Beyond. B. AMORE. NEW YORK: THE CENTER FOR MIGRATION STUDIES, 2006. The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. FRED MYERS, ED. SANTA FE: SCHOOL OF AMERICAN RESEARCH P, ...
Introduction
Apr 01, 2007; ... Over the last few years, Transformations has focused on publishing essays and media reviews that pay close attention to pedagogical theory and praxis. We are committed to including authors from all areas of education and from teachers who work outside traditional academic contexts. We also work ...
WOMEN WRITING RESISTANCE: Teaching Italian Immigrant Women's Radical Political Testimonies
Apr 01, 2007; ... "These women were not just ahead of their time, they were ahead of ours," a student says as we begin class discussion. "I never even thought feminism was like this back then. I mean, these women were talking about inner transformation as fundamental to revolutionary change." Sitting in a circle, ...
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN TEACHING MEMOIR
Apr 01, 2007; ... Many of my colleagues cringe when I tell them I received a memoir from a student that requires notifying another adult for intervention. Many do not want to get involved. They think it is too overwhelming to know our students' painful stories. These are the easy cases. There are services ...
MORE THAN ROSA PARKS: Critical Multicultural Social Studies in a Fourth-Grade Class
Apr 01, 2007; ... When Rosa Parks died in October 2005, she was celebrated as a hero, the mother of the civU rights movement. She was laid in state at the Capitol rotunda so that people could pay their respects to one of the most important figures in the fight for racial justice in the United States.Yet, one ...
DISRUPTING TRANSMISSION: Online Learning in Gender Communication
Apr 01, 2007; ... Introduction Five years ago, I was a committed skeptic about online education, particularly as it concerns communication studies. I believed that, without the immediacy, affect, and feedback of the face-to-face classroom, it was impossible for students to understand the concepts, ...
THE SPACES BETWEEN: A Conversation with Kass Fleisher
Apr 01, 2007; ... Kass Fleisher and MicheUe Naka Pierce first met at Naropa University around the year 2000, when Fleisher was a faculty member for the Summer Writing Program; Pierce was, and stiU is, core faculty and director of the writing center. Fleisher s article, "Reforming Creative Writing Pedagogy: ...
Brooklyn is Your Classroom
Apr 01, 2007; ... Haiku did not originate in Brooklyn, you will be surprised to learn. Flatbush Avenue resists capture in seventeen syllables, like students sitting on their hands when the instructor asks, How would you describe yourself? Are we so sure it ...
BEFORE THEY COULD VOTE: Reading One Hundred Years of American Women's Autobiographical Writing
Apr 01, 2007; ... BEFORE THEY COULD VOTE Reading One Hundred Years of American Women's Autobiographical Writing Before They Could Vote: American Women's Autobiographical Writing 1819-1919. EDS. SIDONIE SMITH AND JULIA WATSON. MADISON, WI: U OF WISCONSIN P, 2006. Historical NewYork Times. ProQuest ...
TECHNOLOGY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS: How Wide Is the Chasm?
Apr 01, 2007; ... TECHNOLOGY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS How Wide Is the Chasm? The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society. Paul Russo. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2005. Doing IT: Women Working in Information Technology. Krista Scott-Dixon. Ontario: Sumach P, ...
Introduction
Oct 01, 2006; ... What are the best approaches to examining the different subjects involved in translation? How can educators address the power dynamics inherent to the translation of texts from marginalized communities and indigenous cultures? How can teachers help students theorize translation so they can ...
DECOLONIZING CATHAY: Teaching the Scandals of Translation Through Angel Island Poetry
Oct 01, 2006; ... The marginality of translation reaches even to educational institutions, where it is manifested in a scandalous contradiction: on the one hand, an utter dependence on translated texts in curricula and research; on the other hand, a general tendency, in both teaching and publications, to elide ...