Boynton/Cook / ISBN 0-86709-443-5 / 978-0-86709-443-5 / 1998 / 198 pp / paperback
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This collection of essays is the first sustained look at the emerging ethical concerns in composition and English studies. Unlike other works that may have used ethics as a way to set a particular code of conduct or to examine a particular area of study, this book describes a range of situations, obliging us to reevaluate the ethical systems that we have previously accepted.

Fontaine and Hunter have organized the essays into conceptual sections that focus on three of the many ways in which our current situations can be reconsidered. In the first section, "Reevaluating Contemporary Pedagogies," the authors identify ethical problems that arise within some of our most widely accepted pedagogical strategies and perspectives. "Competing Obligations" refers to the ethical problems that emerge as teachers and administrators find themselves faced with allegiances to more than one group and more than one vision in the academy. And the authors in "Professional Evolutions" consider ways in which developments and changes in the world outside the English department create ethical conflicts close to home.

Together, these essays provide ethical vantage points from which it is incumbent upon us to view our agency in our profession and in our classrooms. The book's wide range of voices and perspectives helps us begin to understand our own personal and professional ethical awareness and to anticipate the issues we all must face.

Table of Contents

Contents:
1. Ethical Awareness: A Process of Inquiry, S. Fontaine & S. Hunter
I. Reevaluating Contemporary Pedagogies
2. The Poet(h)ical Art of Teaching, P. Connolly
3. Ethical Awareness and Classroom Practice, J. Fortune
4. The Ethics of Teaching Composition in Cyberspace: Knowledge Making in Commodified Space, F. Condon
5. Positions in Learning and Teaching Literary Criticism, M. Helmers
II. Competing Obligations
6. Blurring the Boundaries of Academic Intimacy and Moral Neutrality: What Is the Responsibility of the WPA?, W. Smith
7. Revising Administrative Models and Questioning the Value of Appointing Graduate Student WPAs, S. Fontaine
8. Teaching Through the Looking-Glass: The Ethics of Preparing Students for Timed-Writing Exit Exams, O. Castellano & C. Smith
9. Secrets and Ethics in Ethnographic Writing Research, D. Cook
III. Professional Evolutions
10. The English Doctoral Metacurriculum: An Issue of Ethics, R. Fulkerson
11. Missionary Projects and Anthropological Accounts: Ethics and Conflict in Writing Across the Curriculum, L. Bergmann
12. Resurveying the Boundaries of Intellectual Property, S. Hunter
13. Toward an Ethics of Grading, P. Belanoff