Together with your group, compose a timeline based on the Berlin essay. (See Assignments page for template.)

Consider the following questions: What does the timeline reveal about the relationship between writing instruction and cultural change? In what specific ways does the teaching of writing in schools and colleges enact a "scene of struggle over competing claims about the purposes of education, more specifically about the society the school and college should advocate and the kind of individuals they should encourage" (184)? What cultural continuities and contractions are revealed by this struggle?

I think that the timeline tells us just how much writing instruction is influenced on what is going on in the society. As time went on the curriculum began to change to fit the needs of the people, especially those who were effected by the war. Education was used to not to make scholars but instead to make workers, people who would work hard to help the economy. Unfortunately only the wealthy were provided with education, but after some time passed that also began to change. More women and minorities began to go to school. Certain models of teaching brought about conflict, it was efficiency culture against liberal culture. Through the years the school system flopped from one culture to another and then back again. With changing times in society it called for changes in the school system. It was student based than subject based and back again. English had many different ways of being taught. It started with it being taught through literature. English was then about expressing oneself through creative writing. Then writing was thought of as a cognitive process after WWII. Communication courses became important once the military put it into their training. Cultures change and when they do so does the way they teach their future generations. The effeiceny model wanted to focus on making people leaders to help the nation.
The liberal model wanted to make the students successful for themselves.