Elizabeth Ellsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1584243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Ellsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellsworth |
| SIGNATURE | ELLSWORTH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Places of Learning
Working Difference in Education
We are two educators who teach in graduate schools of education and who work issues of difference as they intersect with our teaching, writing, and daily lives. In this article we offer a reading of Patricia Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor. This reading uses Williams's text for the purpose of exploring the meanings of “working difference” and “multiple and fluid identities” for educators. Specifically, we under…
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I Pledge Allegiance
This article focuses on the aesthetic and rhetorical techniques employed by classical educational documentaries (1930–1965) and identifies the ideological positions such techniques offered to student viewers. By comparing classical educational documentaries to propaganda and social issue documentaries from the same period, it defines the norms of visual representation and language characteristic of this particular educational media form. It then …
Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy
Elizabeth Ellsworth finds that critical pedagogy, as represented in her review of the literature,has developed along a highly abstract and Utopian line which does not necessarily sustain the daily workings of the education its supporters advocate. The author maintains that the discourse of critical pedagogy is based on rationalist assumptions that give rise to repressive myths. Ellsworth argues that if these assumptions, goals, implicit power dyn…
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Working Difference in Education
We are two educators who teach in graduate schools of education and who work issues of difference as they intersect with our teaching, writing, and daily lives. In this article we offer a reading of Patricia Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor. This reading uses Williams's text for the purpose of exploring the meanings of “working difference” and “multiple and fluid identities” for educators. Specifically, we under…
Situated response‐ability to student papers
I Pledge Allegiance
This article focuses on the aesthetic and rhetorical techniques employed by classical educational documentaries (1930–1965) and identifies the ideological positions such techniques offered to student viewers. By comparing classical educational documentaries to propaganda and social issue documentaries from the same period, it defines the norms of visual representation and language characteristic of this particular educational media form. It then …
MTV Presents
Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy
Elizabeth Ellsworth finds that critical pedagogy, as represented in her review of the literature,has developed along a highly abstract and Utopian line which does not necessarily sustain the daily workings of the education its supporters advocate. The author maintains that the discourse of critical pedagogy is based on rationalist assumptions that give rise to repressive myths. Ellsworth argues that if these assumptions, goals, implicit power dyn…
I Pledge Allegiance
This article focuses on the aesthetic and rhetorical techniques employed by classical educational documentaries (1930–1965) and identifies the ideological positions such techniques offered to student viewers. By comparing classical educational documentaries to propaganda and social issue documentaries from the same period, it defines the norms of visual representation and language characteristic of this particular educational media form. It then …
Working Difference in Education
We are two educators who teach in graduate schools of education and who work issues of difference as they intersect with our teaching, writing, and daily lives. In this article we offer a reading of Patricia Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor. This reading uses Williams's text for the purpose of exploring the meanings of “working difference” and “multiple and fluid identities” for educators. Specifically, we under…
Situated response‐ability to student papers
This issue
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