Turning the Soul: Teaching Through Conversation in the High SchoolUniversity of Chicago Press, 21. 4. 1991 - 213 strán (strany) Is our nation's educational system faltering in part because it strives to teach students predetermined "right" answers to questions? In Turning the Soul, Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon offers and alternative to methods advocated by conventional educational practice. By guiding the reader back and forth between two high school classes discussing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, she gracefully introduces the alternative approach to education: interpretive discussion. One class, located in a private, racially integrated urban school, has had many conversations about the meaning of books. The second group, less advantaged students in a largely black urban school, has not. The reader watches as students in each group begin to draw upon experiences in their personal lives to speculate about events in the play. The students assist one another with the interpretation of complex passages, pose queries that help sustain the conversation, and struggle to "get Shakespeare right." Though the teachers suffer moments of intense frustration, they are rewarded by seeing their students learn to engage in meaningful exchange. Because Turning the Soul draws on actual classroom conversations, it presents the range of difficulties that one encounters in interpretive discussion. The book describes the assumptions about learning that the use of such discussion in the classroom presupposes, and it offers a theoretical perspective from which to view the changes in both students and teachers. |
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... concern and affection for the students , along with their willingness to listen and learn from them . While I long to acknowledge these schools and teachers , concealing their identities — as I promised them I would do — has the ...
... concern and affection for the students , along with their willingness to listen and learn from them . While I long to acknowledge these schools and teachers , concealing their identities — as I promised them I would do — has the ...
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... concerns . Some have argued that society could not tolerate the education of talented , thinking citizens that Dewey envisioned , 5 and that for this reason , we find the schools encouraging conformity and mindlessness , 7 in teachers ...
... concerns . Some have argued that society could not tolerate the education of talented , thinking citizens that Dewey envisioned , 5 and that for this reason , we find the schools encouraging conformity and mindlessness , 7 in teachers ...
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... concerns . Indeed , one would have to identify and respond to their needs and interests , which means understanding the features of children's thinking as distinguished from that of adults — as well as the individual pre- occupations ...
... concerns . Indeed , one would have to identify and respond to their needs and interests , which means understanding the features of children's thinking as distinguished from that of adults — as well as the individual pre- occupations ...
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... concerned with developing students ' individual interests when many of them turn out to be functionally illiterate ? 49 The response to such pressure is always the same : We fall back on the idea that teaching is telling and ...
... concerned with developing students ' individual interests when many of them turn out to be functionally illiterate ? 49 The response to such pressure is always the same : We fall back on the idea that teaching is telling and ...
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... concern . It appears , then , that students can learn to interpret texts for themselves , given appropriate questioning . The evidence herein for this claim comes not from a parade of replicated success stories but from a close look at ...
... concern . It appears , then , that students can learn to interpret texts for themselves , given appropriate questioning . The evidence herein for this claim comes not from a parade of replicated success stories but from a close look at ...
Obsah
An Introduction to Chalmers and Belden Schools | 23 |
Why Do Teachers Fail to Draw upon Students Experiences in Discussion? | 39 |
What Does a Good Interpretive Discussion Look Like? | 53 |
How Are Students and Teachers Transformed through Discussion? | 71 |
The Phony Issue | 73 |
The Genuine Issue | 85 |
The Group Emerges | 101 |
The Evaluative Discussion | 118 |
Getting It Right | 132 |
How Do Students Learn to Build an Interpretation? | 147 |
Getting It Wrong | 149 |
Getting It Right Again | 164 |
Problems and Possibilities | 177 |
Notes | 191 |
Index | 207 |
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Turning the Soul: Teaching Through Conversation in the High School Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon Obmedzený náhľad - 1991 |
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Strana 12 - learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence. Under such conditions, doing becomes a trying; an experiment with the world to find out what it is like; the undergoing becomes instruction — discovery of the connection of things.
Strana 2 - A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.