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Performing Discussion: The Dream of a Common Language in the Literature Classroom

Performing Discussion: The Dream of a Common Language in the Literature Classroom This article argues that students still must be encouraged to participate in active, interpretive communities that build viable textual meanings in literature classes (and elsewhere). It questions how instructors in student-centered classrooms negotiate the balance between maintaining professorial authority and empowering students to test out interpretive arguments. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Duke University Press

Performing Discussion: The Dream of a Common Language in the Literature Classroom

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Duke University Press
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Duke University Press
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1531-4200
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1533-6255
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10.1215/15314200-2009-029
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This article argues that students still must be encouraged to participate in active, interpretive communities that build viable textual meanings in literature classes (and elsewhere). It questions how instructors in student-centered classrooms negotiate the balance between maintaining professorial authority and empowering students to test out interpretive arguments.

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Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture – Duke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2010

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