From: EVAN-AT-KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 12:29:06 -0500 (UTC -05:00) Subject: Re: Educational Practice & Nomad Philosophy It can be helpful to make students into graders. I was disappointed to see, though, my University officially disallow this practice last year (Thou shalt not . . . .) The problem, ostensibly, was the exploitation of getting the students to work, unpaid, doing what the instructors are paid to do. This motive would be much more believable, of course, if the U. was taking actions against similar and worse exploitations here, which it isn't doing. Anyway. I'm toying with an experimentally nomad idea for next semester's teaching. I may assign to my mostly-White intro. class on "Understanding America" some *student* papers from the Western Civ. class I taught last year at an all-Indian college. Maybe let the paper-writers answer questions in person, if possible. The theme of the exercise would be expanding our ideas of what we can consider as texts, and what these texts can do. --evan
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