This book provides scholars, educators, and legislators with a personal, classroom-level tour of daily life at a community college. Readers will accompany the author into the classroom as he goes about his work as an English teacher meeting with classes and corresponding with students on Blackboard and e-mail. Answering the call for student-centered scholarship, this book blends traditional academic writing with chapters that feature a rich variety of student work, including essays, journal entries, poems, art, and responses to creative assignments. In this volume, Sullivan theorizes the modern community college as a social justice institution. By mission and mandate, the modern community college has democratized Americas system of higher education and distributed hope, equity, and opportunity more broadly across the nation.
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3 Democracy's Unfinished Business |
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Part II The First Day of Class |
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5 Meet My English 93 Class |
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Part III The Semester Unfolds |
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8 "I Am Sorry Tk Be a Pain" |
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9 Aprender a Dudar es Aprender a Pensar |
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10 And Now from Learning to Enjoy Reading I Crave Knowledge and I'm Fascinated with the Idea of Improving My Vocabulary and My Wisdom |
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Part IV Outside the Classroom |
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Part V Triumphant Endings |
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20 Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen |
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Acknowledgements |
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Appendix: Index of Assignments |
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Index |
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Patrick Sullivan is Professor of English at Manchester Community College, Connecticutt, USA.