Language and limits : resisting reform in English studies /

What could be more commonsensical than the notion that students need to become more critical readers and writers, subjecting the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes they encounter to closer, "critical" scrutiny? Yet is not the deep suspicion of common sense one of the founding principles of crit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tuman, Myron C., 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Series:SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning.
Subjects:
English philology > Study and teaching.
Critical thinking > Study and teaching.
Language and culture.
Educational change.
Philologie anglaise > Étude et enseignement.
Pensée critique > Étude et enseignement.
Langage et culture.
Enseignement > Réforme.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Philologie anglaise > Etude et enseignement.
Pensee critique > Etude et enseignement.
Enseignement > Reforme.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Lying Cretans, or the Paradox of Critical Thinking
  • 2. Reading, Writing, and Resistance
  • 3. Deep Reading and Writing
  • 4. Metaphor, Culture, and Play
  • 5. The Emperor's New Clothes: A Tale of Resistance
  • 6. Literature as Local Practice
  • 7. "They Say That, But": Writing Instruction as Local Practice
  • 8. "Shaped by the Rules": The Resistant Class
  • 9. Vico's Voice, or Beyond Critical Pedagogy.

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