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Sanford Tweedie. Self-Serving Sentences: Of Visions and Those Who Inhabit Them.

Tweedie, Sanford. "Self-Serving Sentences: Of Visions and Those Who Inhabit Them." CCC 48.3 (1997): 348-359.

Abstract:

Interposing quotes from institutional vision statements with scenes from a team-taught reading and writing course for under-prepared first-year students at Rowan College, Tweedie records his attempt to use race, class, and gender to frame the issues his students take up in class. In this essay, he couples this with his belief that education has to simultaneously promote conformity to and resistance of societal conventions, and explores the contradictions of this dissonance in his teaching experience.

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Beyond 2000: The Rowan Vision. Rowan College, 1995.
Gephardt, Donald. "Provost's Opening Re marks." Learning Communities Working Group 23-24.
Learning Communities Working Group. Rowan College Learning Communities Working Paper: Assessing Where We Are. April 26, 1995.
McCall, Nathan. Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America. New York: Vintage, 1994.
Thompson, Cooper. "A New Vision of Masculinity." Gender Images: Readings for Composition. Ed. Melita Schaum and Connie Flanagan. Boston: Houghton, 1992. 77-83.
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