Research in the Teaching of English
Oct 1997
The Teacher as Dostoevskian Novelist
Timothy J. Lensmire
Washington University in St. Louis
Abstract
Investigates how teaching and the teacher’s role in elementary and secondary school writing classes have been conceptualized by leading workshop advocates. Uses M. Bakhtin’s writing on F. Dostoevsky to develop a metaphor of the writing teacher as novelist. Argues that workshop visions of teaching and the teacher’s role mystify meaning-making and ignore the workings of power.
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- Research in the Teaching of English
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- 1997-10-01
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- 10.58680/rte19973887
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