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American studies in dialogue : radical reconstructions between curriculum and cultural critique / Matthias Oppermann.
- Title
- American studies in dialogue : radical reconstructions between curriculum and cultural critique / Matthias Oppermann.
- Author
- Oppermann, Matthias.
- Publication
- Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, c2010.
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- Description
- 297 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- North American studies ; volume 29
- Uniform Title
- Nordamerikastudien ; Bd. 29.
- Alternative Title
- Radical reconstructions between curriculum and cultural critique
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2009.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Histories of curricular innovation -- 1. American studies as curricular innovation : interventions into narratives of field formation -- 1.1. "A subject so familiar and so simple" : American literature and American civilization in the college curriculum -- 1.2. Money, Jingoism, and folklore? American studies after World War II -- 1.3. Bridging the schisms of culture and method : "Peaux rouges" and "Mandarins" in Minnesota -- 2. Maturity and midlife crises : radical teachers, cultural turns -- 2.1. Quantitative growth and organizational structures in the 1960s and 1970s -- 2.2. Cultural experts and literary amateurs in the early 1960s -- 2.3. Radical teaching contra cultural consensus? -- 2.4. Collaborators, computers, problem-solvers : Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Davis (re- )considered -- Trajectories of transformation -- 3. Multiculturalism as radical critique : American studies beyond the nation -- 3.1. Social movements, European theory, and the search for resistance -- 3.2. Contextualizing cultural studies : the political work of cultural critique -- 3.3. Dialogics beyond borders : American culture studies -- 3.4. From coverage to contact zones : curricula of comparative U.S. cultures -- 4. American studies in the age of digital cultures -- 4.1. American studies and new media -- 4.2. Culture and database : George Allen's curse, Chris Crocker's cupcake -- 4.3. New media -- New American studies? -- Expansions of the field-imaginary -- 5. American studies and the learning paradigm -- 5.1. Understanding student learning -- 5.2. Novice, expert, and beyond -- 5.3. Does American studies have "signature pedagogies"? -- 6. From best practices to next practices -- 6.1. Going meta : towards a scholarship of teaching in American studies -- 6.2. Pedagogies and epistemologies : notes from the visible knowledge project -- 6.3. Digital storytelling : adaptive, embodied, and socially situated.
- ISBN
- 9783593393179 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 670470723
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library