Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing

http://www.jstor.org/stable/357563

by Maxine Hairston

She thinks it's bad for FYC teachers to teach about politics or diversity. She highlights Marxism in FYC courses and says that English departments shouldn't let literary critics run things. She says we should just teach writing, period, free of democratic ideals.

Shifting out of "neutral": beginning teachers' struggles with teaching for social justice

deirdre m. kelly and gabriella minnes brandes

"We discerned 5 distinct positions about the possibility and desirability of teacher neutrality."
"Teachers alone cannot overcome the social injustices that currently impede democracy, but they can play an important role in nurturing a more active form of citizenship among young people."
"Those who have written about critical pedagogy are clear that teaching is inevitably political and teachers cannot be value-neutral."
"knowledge is individually rather than socially constructed"
"Teacher neutrality is not only undesirable but impossible."
Some teachers thought "of action in modest and student-appropriate ways that unfolded in local contexts."