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Schwartz

Defining Feminist Pedagogy
Despite differences in definition, feminist pedagogies tend to share some common principles. The feminist classroom challenges students to
• gain an understanding of different social realities,
• identify with groups of people with whom they may have never connected,
• alter social realities with which they are dissatisfied,
• think about potential social problems in new and informed ways and to propose solutions to such problems.

Some characteristics of feminist pedagogy, which come from theories and traditions ranging from bell hooks to Paulo Friere, are:
• a student-centered or de-centered classroom,
• student ownership—on some level—of classroom projects and conversations,
• attention to a multiple learning styles and multiple intelligences,
• endorsement of collaborative learning and collaborative working styles,

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CWRL Assignment DatabasePedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Goal: To test how the inflection and variation of pitch in poetic reading effects the interpretation of poetry.

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CWRL Assignment DatabasePedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Description: This is a web research and short writing assignment (3-4 pages) designed for an E314J Lit and Film class or literary contests and contexts. While reading Pride and Prejudice, we examine fan web sites devoted to Jane Austen and her work. I then ask the students to peruse these sites and works of fan fiction that utilize characters from Pride and Prejudice, and to consider how those sites influence their perceptions and interpretations of Austen and Pride and Prejudice. Students research examples of fan sites and fan fiction, formulate a thesis, and then prove that thesis by using evidence from Pride and Prejudice and the selected web site.

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CWRL Assignment DatabasePedagogical Goals of the Assignment
RATIONALE:
This assignment is a good one for the following reasons:
• It fosters collaboration.
• It provides students with an opportunity to learn about usability by both analyzing usability problems and by providing solutions in their re-design.
• It provides students with an opportunity to develop a skill that they could use in their profession (95% of all large scale web design is now web re-design).
• It asks students to consider the relationship between graphics and content on a web page.
• It challenges student’s critical thinking skills.
• It provides a clear reason for learning HTML code instead of relying on Dreamweaver.

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CWRL Assignment DatabasePedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Since the New Oxford American Dictionary declared it the word of the year for 2005, you may already know that a podcast is "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the internet for downloading to a personal audio player." It's quite easy to create and distribute a podcast with lab equipment. This guide will describe how to create a sound file with the Mac program GarageBand, and provide resources for hosting and syndication. It ends with suggestions for using podcasts in class.

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Emily BloomPedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Moving from rhetorical analysis to argumentation, this assignment aims to shift class discussion so that students can begin looking critically at rhetorical techniques and make good choices for their argument paper. They will analyze, critique, reconstruct and rebut a bad argument from the movie "Clueless."