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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “shane borrowman”
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  • Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration, The

    Edited by Theresa Enos, Shane Borrowman ...
    Series series Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
    Combining formal quantitative research with narrative-based scholarship, THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION represents multiple voices from faculty balancing between the demands of teaching, writing, and administering writing programs in professional, ethical ways-often under circumstances that can be defined, at best, as difficult. In these pages, junior faculty tell their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Blunt Edge

    Technology in Composition’s History and Pedagogy

    Edited by Shane Borrowman ...
    On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition’s History and Pedagogy tells the stories of composition’s techno-history, from the roads of the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school, to the audio-visual aids that populate the classrooms of the modern world. Computers are only a small part of this discussion, a technological Johnny-come-lately in a long-running pedagogical palaver. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation

    Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade

    by Shane Borrowman, Costas Constandinides, Daryl G. Frazetti, Daniel Herbert, Ils Huygens, Stan Jones, Zilia Papp, Myoungsook Park, Constantine Verevis, Juneko J. Robinson ...
    This collection was inspired by the observation that film remakes offer us the opportunity to revisit important issues, stories, themes, and topics in a manner that is especially relevant and meaningful to contemporary audiences. Like mythic stories that are told again and again in differing ways, film remakes present us with updated perspectives on timeless ideas. While some remakes succeed and ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Renewing Rhetoric's Relation to Composition

    Essays in Honor of Theresa Jarnagin Enos

    Edited by Shane Borrowman, Stuart Brown, Thomas Miller ...
    Renewing Rhetoric’s Relation to Composition comprehensively examines the development of rhetoric and composition, using the writings of Theresa Jarnagin Enos as points of departure for studies of broader trends. Chapters explore such topics as the historical relations of rhetoric and composition, their evolution within programs of study, and Enos’s research on gender. The volume presents the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Sociological Imagination

    by C. Wright Mills ...
    C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Read more

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  • How Propaganda Works

    by Jason Stanley ...
    How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies ... Read more

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  • Men and Women of the Corporation

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    by Rosabeth Moss Kanter ...
    In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within ... Read more

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  • Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life

    by Anthony T. Kronman ...
    The question of what living is for-of what one should care about and why-is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and universities have expelled this question from their classrooms, judging it unfit for organized study. In this eloquent and carefully considered book, Tony Kronman explores why this has happened and calls for ... Read more

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  • The New Education

    How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past -- and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant changeOur current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, all in an attempt to prepare young people for a world ... Read more

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  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and ... Read more

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  • Is Technology Good for Education?

    by Neil Selwyn ...
    Series series Digital Futures
    Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’.Is Technology Good For Education? ... Read more

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