Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

Graduation date: 2007Responsible Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the\ud United States. Responsible educators are dedicated to being representative,\ud responsive, and respectful. These three principles guide the best teaching and\ud learning that are taking place in classrooms across the country. Launched in\ud 2003, Shakespeare in American Communities is the most ambitious project in the\ud history of the National Endowment for the Arts. The Shakespeare initiative's\ud logo, depicting Shakespeare on an American flag, succinctly invokes a discussion\ud of the juxtaposition of the politics of literature, art, and education in contemporary\ud culture and symbolizes the battle for political and ideological superiority on a\ud national level and the debate academic world about how what we should be\ud teaching our students. Shakespeare in American Communities presents an\ud outstanding opportunity to examine the role NEA as a political tool of the Right\ud under the George W. Bush administration in the wake of the American "Culture\ud Wars" of the 1980s and 1990s