I've just finished Derek Owens's Composition and Sustainability, a book that highlights the ways our places influence our views on the world. Even more, Owens discusses how it is that we should bring the concept of "sustainability" into the classroom.
I am going to attempt to write about my neighborhood (at home in Reston, VA), just like I'll have my students do this fall. The hope is that, in addition to critical issues like race (whether you believe it's a social construct or not), gender, and class, important issues of environmental concern get left out of the critical pedagogy mix.
I'd like to not let that happen. I'm including a link to amazon.com with some of these titles. Buy them. Read them. Use them!
Composition and Sustainability:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814100376/sr=8-1/qid=1150928144/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-0168146-2575160?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Composition and Resistance
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0867092815/qid=1150928355/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-0168146-2575160?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
This is a edited book by one of my professors, Dr. Claude M. Hurlbert, and Dr. Michael Blitz. They focus on issues of resistance in composition, not only in the classroom but in our departments, across full-time faculty and adjuncts, within the debates that rise from our many theoretical positions. Interesting!
About to read:
Don McAndrew's "Ecofeminism and the Teaching of Literacy" College Composition & Communication v47 n3 p367-82 (1996). What's great about this is Don was also my professor for the research methods class. He's the guy in the Hawaiian shirt, much too smart for us mere mortals! But what's great about this is that his article covers both ecology and feminism (I bet). I'm into the environment, I'm a feminist. What's to lose?
More for the reading list later...
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