Program

Education Programs: Institutes for K-12 Educators

Period of Performance

1/1/1985 - 1/31/1989

Funding Totals

$380,000.00 (approved)
$364,788.78 (awarded)


Literary Criticism and Literature: Knowledge and Application

FAIN: ES-21050-85

Auburn University (Auburn, AL 36849-0001)
Douglas A. Alley (Project Director: January 1986 to June 1989)

This project also received funding with the renewal award listed below.

Subsequent award (renewal) ES-21469-87

Funding details:
Original grant (1985) $180,000.00
Supplement (1988) $190,042.00
Supplement (1989) ($5,253.22)

To support a four-week summer institute and follow-up activities for 45 high school English teachers from Alabama and the surrounding states. Theories of literary criticism will be considered, with emphasis on how each affects the reading of selected works of literature. A book for teachers will be prepared.