Forsaking the Big Desk: Whole Language in the College Classroom
Describes the experience of a college teacher teaching, for the first time, an introduction to literature course with a whole-language approach. Describes how she abandoned her position as imparter-of-knowledge and as authority, and joined the students as one of many readers and writers. Discusses h...
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| Published in | Teaching English in the two-year college Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 44 - 50 |
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Urbana
National Council of Teachers of English
01.02.1998
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| Abstract | Describes the experience of a college teacher teaching, for the first time, an introduction to literature course with a whole-language approach. Describes how she abandoned her position as imparter-of-knowledge and as authority, and joined the students as one of many readers and writers. Discusses how class activities were structured and notes students' enthusiasm. (SR) |
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| AbstractList | Describes the experience of a college teacher teaching, for the first time, an introduction to literature course with a whole-language approach. Describes how she abandoned her position as imparter-of-knowledge and as authority, and joined the students as one of many readers and writers. Discusses how class activities were structured and notes students’ enthusiasm. In reading the work of whole language experts such as Constance Weaver, Carole Edelsky, Nancie Atwell, Ken and Yetta Goodman, and Kathleen and James Strickland, I had learned that whole language is not a theory but a philosophy informed by the theoretical perspectives of feminism, social construction, multiculturalism, collaboration, and literary criticism. [...]at my insistence, they moved in until their chairs were touching, at which point they all sat looking expectantly at me. [...]the works they chose were the ones that elicited the strongest individual responses from the students. Because I knew Luke, I could imagine him standing in the center of a bunch of recruits as his commander opened something Luke considered to be so personal. Describes the experience of a college teacher teaching, for the first time, an introduction to literature course with a whole-language approach. Describes how she abandoned her position as imparter-of-knowledge and as authority, and joined the students as one of many readers and writers. Discusses how class activities were structured and notes students' enthusiasm. (SR) |
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