In recent years it has become almost normal for politicians to overtly and routinely lie. How should educators respond? Students should explore post-truth politics, develop research skills, and practice inquirybased factual writing, but they need more than literacy skills. Liberal education prepares them to be active, ethical participants in democracy.

Empathy is a much-discussed term in the humanities these days. While some critics value it and argue that literature desirably promotes it, other critics worry that appeals to this emotion will neglect important matters of social context. In the literature classroom, the best approach is to take time to consider how texts complicate the impulse to empathize.

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Increasingly, autistic students are attending college, posing new challenges to writing instructors. In particular, such students may have trouble imagining readers’ responses to their texts. Developing an appropriate pedagogy for these students may involve revisiting composition studies’ tradition of cognitive research, while not abandoning more recent constructivist theories.

Review Article| April 01 2005 Getting a Clue: Gerald Graff and the Life of the Mind Ann Jurecic Ann Jurecic Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pedagogy (2005) 5 (2): 323–330. https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-5-2-323 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Jurecic; Getting a Clue: Gerald Graff and the Life of the Mind. Pedagogy 1 April 2005; 5 (2): 323–330. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-5-2-323 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsPedagogy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2005 Duke University Press2005 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Roundtable: Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind You do not currently have access to this content.