Powerful Writing, Responsible Teaching
Published on 31. May 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-8077-3956-3 (ISBN)
Description
This work examines the problems and promise of progressive literary education. The author develops a series of striking metaphors - the writing workshop as carnival and the teacher as novelist - and makes use of Bakhtin's theories of language and Dewey's vision of schooling.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
213 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-3956-3 (9780807739563)
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Timothy J. Lensmire is associate professor of Education at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches courses on literacy and the politics and philosophy of education.