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- Copyright
- © 2011 by Duke University Press
- ISSN
- 1531-4200
- eISSN
- 1533-6255
- DOI
- 10.1215/15314200-1302804
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Abstract
F r o m t h e C l a s sr o o m Promoting Cooperation and Respect “Bad” Poetry Slam in the Nontraditional Classroom Rebecca Brown In the spring semester of 2009, I taught ENG 4390: Explorations in English at Texas A&M University – San Antonio, a nontraditional university located in the south end of the city. My students, eighteen women and one man, rang - ing in age from twenty- three to fifty, were exemplary of the school’s popula - tion. Almost half of them were Hispanic, and most had attended at least one community college before coming to our university. Many worked twenty to forty hours a week in addition to balancing a full course load and their fam - ily obligations. Nearly all nineteen students aspired to a career in education, which was fortuitous; despite the ambiguous title Explorations, English 4390 aims to prepare future elementary and secondary school instructors to teach literature. When I taught the course during a brief summer term in 2008, the poetry unit posed the greatest number of challenges for my undergraduates and me. Meter, assonance, consonance, and rhyme intimidated my students, and I confess that I shared their
Journal
Pedagogy – Duke University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2011