John J. Bukowczyk | Forum on Teaching Immigration and Ethnic History | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.2

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FORUM ON TEACHING IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC HISTORY

Introduction

JOHN J. BUKOWCZYK

THIS FORUM OF the Journal of American Ethnic History titled "Teaching Immigration and Ethnic History" responds to the demographic fact that many readers of this journal work at so-called teaching institutions (as distinguished from "research universities"). But it also arises from a growing perception that even in many "research universities," teaching is coming to occupy a place coequal (or nearly coequal) to that of research and writing.

In touring the manifold ways in which traditional (and not so traditional) scholarship has had an impact on what and how we know about our subject and what and how we teach about it, this Forum mounts a vigorous defense against laments that an unbreachable wall separates scholarship from teaching. It also challenges parallel attempts to assign—and thus to confine—historians, their departments, or their institutions to one side of that putative (punitive) wall or the other. Indeed, inside the classroom, scholar and teacher —scholar-teacher and teacher-scholar—are hardly incompatible identities. There both engage in much the same enterprise, although the backgrounds, abilities, and interests of their students; the conditions under which they labor; and the priorities of their institutions certainly do influence (although, judging by the Forum essays, do not seem to overdetermine) what happens in their classrooms.

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FORUM ON TEACHING IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC HISTORY

Introduction JOHN J. BUKOWCZYK

Introduction

JOHN J. BUKOWCZYK