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EDUCATIONAL TRENDS NEW Writing against the Curriculum Anti-Disciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom Edited by Randi Gray Kristensen and Ryan M. Claycomb Essays by administrators, faculty, and librarians argue that such classrooms make excellent spaces to question disciplinarity through the study of rhetoric, critical thinking, and curricular flexibility.This intervention in composition and cultural studies discourses enables the activist enactment of cultural studies’ theory and addresses the theoretical implications of composition practices. Randi Gray Kristensen is assistant professor in the University Writing Program at George Washington University. Ryan Claycomb is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University. Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism Lexington Books 978-0-7391-2800-8 • 2009 • 244 pp. • $70.00 • cloth NEW The UnCivil University Intolerance on College Campuses REVISED EDITION Gary A. Tobin, Aryeh Kaufmann Weinberg, and Jenna Ferer “[An] alarming, well-sourced analysis. . . .” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY This book documents the alarming rise in bigotry and bullying in the academy, using a range of evidence from first-hand accounts of intimidation of students by anti-Israel professors to anti-Semitic articles in student newspapers and marginalization of pro-Israel scholars. The UnCivil University exposes the unspoken world of double standards, bureaucratic paralysis, and abdication of leadership that not only allows but often supports a vocal minority of extremists on campus. Gary A.Tobin is president of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research (IJCR) and was the director of the Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University for 14 years. Aryeh Kaufmann Weinberg is a research associate at IJCR. Jenna Ferer is a former research associate at IJCR. Lexington Books 978-0-7391-3267-8 • 2009 • 336 pp. • $24.95 • paper 978-0-7391-3266-1 • 2009 • 336 pp. • $39.95 • cloth Hegemony and Education Gramsci, Post-Marxism, and Radical Democracy Revisited Deb J. Hill “Recommended.” —CHOICE Hegemony and Education explores how the educational insights implicit in Antonio Gramsci’s historical materialist outlook have been reconciled to the post-Marxist theory of “radical democracy.” The author argues that there is an urgent need to redefine the dynamics of hegemony as a theory centering on the problem of cognitive and moral submissiveness. Deb J. Hill is a political philosopher of education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Lexington Books 978-0-7391-2167-2 • 2008 • 286 pp. • $32.95 • paper 978-0-7391-2166-5 • 2007 • 286 pp. • $70.00 • cloth ORDER ONLINE AT WWW.LEXINGTONBOOKS.COM • WWW.SCARECROWPRESS.COM

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