Issues Reading in Academic Disciplines

by Delli Carpini, Dominic A.

• ISBN13: 9780205568574
• ISBN10: 0205568572
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-25
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Issues in the Disciplines is a thematically organized, cross-disciplinary reader. Multiple perspectives from the natural and social sciences and the humanities are presented on topics like war, politics and citizenship, and literacy both to engage readers with academic texts and to the range of disciplinary approaches.

Table of Contents

Preface 

 

Introduction 

 

CHAPTER 1 Literacy Across Disciplines: What Does It Mean to Be “Literate” in the 21st Century? 

21st Century Curriculum and Assessment Framework by National Council of Teachers of English

AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learnerby The American Association of School Librarians and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology

Visual Literacy in the Age of Participation by Barbara Rockenbach and Carole Ann Fabian

Expanding the Concept of Literacy by Elizabeth Daly

America 101: How We Let Civic Education Slide by Eric Lane

Statistics and Quantitative Literacy by Richard L. Sheaffer

Humanism and Quantitative Literacy by Robert Orrill

 

CHAPTER 2 Looking Deep Inside Us: The Implications of Genetic Testing and Neuroimaging 

Online Resources for Understanding the Human Genome Project and Neuroimaging 

ASHG Statement on Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing in the United States by American Society of Human Genetics

Stem Cells and Genetic Testing: The Gap Between Science and Society Widens by Ricki Lewis

Mind Reading  by Arthur L. Caplan

Therapeutic Promise in the Discourse of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research by Beatrix P. Rubin

Using the Best Interests Standard to Decide Whether to Test Children for Untreatable, Late-Onset Genetic Diseases by Loretta M. Kopelman

Neuroimaging Techniques for Memory Detection: Scientific, Ethical, and Legal Issues by Daniel V. Meegan

Neuroimaging and the ‘Complexity’ of Capital Punishment by O. Carter Snead

 

CHAPTER 3 Is the Concept of “Race” Real? Theoretical Debates and Practical Implications

Background Readings on Race in America by Classic Texts Online

The Origin of the Concept of Race by Ashley Montagu

Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Race  by Public Broadcasting System

Race and the Law by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele

Does ‘Race’ Have a Future? by Philip Kitcher

Race and the Human Genome Project: Constructions of Scientific Legitimacy by Patricia McCann-Mortimer, Martha Augoustinos, and Amanda LeCouteur

How Real Is Race? Using Anthropology to Make Sense of Human Diversity by Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary C. Henze

Race in a Bottle by Jonathan Kahn

 

CHAPTER 4 What Does It Mean to Be (or Become) an “American”? Citizenship and the Immigration Debate 

The Elements of American Identity, from One America Indivisible by Sheldon Hackney

Teaching Citizenship and Values on the U.S.-Mexico Border  by Susan Rippberger and Kathleen Staudt  

Lessons of Belonging and Citizenship Among Hijas/os de Inmigrantes Mexicanos by  Melissa Moreno  

Preparing for Citizenship: Immigrant High School Students’ Curriculum and Socialization by Rebecca M. Callahan, Chandra Muller, and Kathryn S. Schiller  

The Economic Logic of Illegal Immigration by  Gordon H. Hanson

The Real Problem with Immigration . . . and the Solution by Tim Kane and Kirk A. Johnson

Ethnic Identity and Imperative Patriotism: Arab Americans Before and After 9/11 by  Steven Salaita

   

CHAPTER 5 Studying the New Face of War: Definitions, Causes, and Effects across Disciplines 

Occasions that Justify War, from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of War, from the Summa Theologica  by Thomas Aquinas

Toward the End of War? Peeking Through the Gap by  Pertti Joenniemi

America and the New Dynamics of War  by  Jason Royce Lindsey

Making War on Terrorists—Reflections on Harming the Innocent by Thomas Pogge

Does War Beget Child Aggression? Military Violence, Gender, Age, and Aggressive Behavior in Two Palestinian Samples by Samir Qouta, Raija-Leena Punamäki, Thomas Miller, and Eyad El-Sarraj  

What Is War? by Mary Ellen O’Connell

 

CHAPTER 6 Beyond Petroleum: Finding a Sustainable Energy Future 

Beyond the Age of Petroleum by Michael T. Klare

America Is Addicted to Foreign Oil  by The Pickens Plan

Biogas as a Renewable Energy Source—A Review by M. Balat and H. Balat

The Power and the Glory by Geoffrey Carr

Power Play by Berenice Baker

Catch-22: Water Versus Energy by Michael E. Webber

The Clean Energy Scam by Michael Grunwald

How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor by C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer  

 

Credits

 

Index