She is the author of Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture, now out in paperback from Oxford University Press.
She is the author of Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Creation of Modern Political Culture Oxford University Presss, 2015) and her writing has appeared in various scholarly journals and popular media such as The New York Times and Slate.
A2 World Briefing A8 NATIONAL 9-12; 16 Lesson Plans on Sept. 11 Prove a Sensitive Subject The anniversary of Sept. 11 has set off the latest skirmish in the classroom culture wars.
Planning the nonviolence center and transforming what he described as an "old, cold-war classroom" into a modern, light-filled space helped keep him distracted and busy.
But nearly 20 years later, this moment survives on YouTube, one of the blunders that continue to be dissected in law school classrooms and prosecution war rooms.
They were never considered high cinema, but mental hygiene films, a staple of the post-war American classroom, aspired to the lofty goal of shaping young minds in a time of rapidly changing mores and cold-war uncertainty.
The Times article attributed the battles in Mr. Sutter's classroom to the "culture wars" being played out in the United States.
There's war in the classroom at Warwick Arts Centre, where you can catch the award-winning Mogadishu, and Birmingham Rep take another new play about classroom politics, Gravity, into MAC.
We happened to be learning about Mao's rule of China in history at the time – we were told to bring a textbook about the First World War into the classroom, and even had a fake corresponding worksheet that we could quickly whip out if the officials decided to inspect our classroom at the wrong time.
Precisely in response to this issue, academics from the University of Exeter and Northumbria University are leading an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project entitled The First World War in the Classroom: Teaching and the Construction of Cultural Memory.
