In calling this book Beyond the Culture Tours, the authors bring the reader's attention to a set of issues in the teaching of literature and culture. The Culture Tour is an old concept in the West, dating back to the seventeenth century. The educated young man -- it was an exclusively male project at first -- was expected to round off his education with the Grand Tour. This meant a visit to the major sites on the European continent, particularly Greece and Rome, and occasionally to the Holy Land. The object was to have a first-hand view of these monuments, and looking at them alone brought people the name of being cultured or well-traveled. As the idea spread in the early part of the twentieth century, it allowed for the vicarious tour rather than the actual one. Students were asked to look at collections of art or reproductions of art work, listen to concerts or later recordings, and to read certain classical works drawn from what has come to be known as "the canon." The point of this form of education was that exposure to these works in itself formed a version of the Grand Tour. The basic idea behind the tour approach is that exposure to a culture in books is like travel to an ethnic theme park.  This volume looks beyond the tour approach and reports on the results of a four-year project undertaken by a research team from the National Center for Research in the Learning and Teaching of Literature. Their intent was to study the teaching and impact of multicultural literature. The team examined how students approached texts that either came from their culture or from another, and how teachers perceived the students, the literature, and their role. This volume details various aspects of their findings.

Beyond the Culture Tours: Studies in Teaching and Learning With Culturally Diverse Texts

Literature & Fiction

Jordan, Sarah

Ostrowski, Steven

Cruz, Gladys

Mel‚ndez, Jos‚

History & Criticism

Routledge

The Highway of Spirit and Bone

Self-Help

Relationships

Lefora Publishing Company LLC

Poetry. "If, as Robert Browning once wrote, 'God is the perfect poet who in his person acts his own creations,' then Steve Ostrowski's poetry is one of those creations made manifest. Imbued with quietude and divinity, sparked by the unremittingly human, these poems take on the difficult, crucial task of making meaning in a world that satirizes and cannibalizes itself, never flinching from the ad absurdum nature of language and contemporary life, while maintaining an intrepid belief in the redemptive power of love. In a climate where too many poems with sparkling surfaces drift like flotsam past awareness, these are poems of substance and intentionality, borne from the idllys of childhood, the charge of being a devoted husband and father, the unasked-for task of carrying on the secret imperatives passed on to us from our ancestors, and Ostrowski manages to explore such fundamental subjects with characteristic wit and panache'"--Ravi Shankar.

In Late Fields (Bright Hill Press at Hand Poetry Chapbook Series, 17)

Poetry

Bright Hill Press

Penultimate Human Constellation is a conversation in poems. A father sends out his light to his orbiting son, who hopscotches across the stars of college and Southeast Asia. Back and forth across states, oceans, and galaxies, they explore themselves, their connections, and their futures. Though their styles and their minds differ, together they write one honest and vulnerable dialogue in our particularly fraught time, when conversations are more like volleys of digital cannonfire. Penultimate Human Constellation pushes back against toxic masculinity, serving as a much-needed example of the expression of the important father-son connection that is both poignant and refreshing.

Penultimate Human Constellation

Ostrowski, Benjamin

Tolsun Books, LLC

This collection of fictions, written in a variety of forms from traditional stories to micro fictions, explore the often hardscrabble, working-class lives of compelling, quirky characters.

A Pile of Crosses, stories

Literary

Persons of Interest: Poems

Wolfson Press

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