Webb Book

The Webb book was like the Appleman book except political and not quite as good. I enjoyed some of things he had to say about teaching things culturally, but I really didn't like the fact that most of the classes he focused on were college classrooms and that he wanted us to be teaching these kinds of things all semester. I just think it's too much, and I think there is a limit to how much you can put opinions into a classroom. Actually, now that I write that I realize that it's a really important point. It's fine and it's actually good to reveal your opinion to your classroom, but you can't be doing it all the time, and there is such a thing has learning just for the joy of learning something academic, without attaching a bunch of real world connotations to it.

I think the two cultural things I liked were using homelessness to talk about Marxism and using feminist literature in the classroom. It's entertaining to me that both of these different topics can make different parts of the class uncomfortable depending on who is the majority group in question, and it would be fun to draw connections between the two and how minority groups function as a whole.