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Tag Archives: Pedagogy
I’m returning to this site after a long absence mostly as a place to post the reading list for my Senior Seminar course on The Gothic. I’ve had a few people on the Twitter machine request it, and I thought … Continue reading
The Experience of Reading Poetry Part 2: “vex one like dronings of the shuttles at task”
In my last post I discussed Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Lady Lilith” and how the experience of reading the lines actually mirrors the poem’s content. Another excellent example of a poet using the form, in this case repetition and specific diction, … Continue reading
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Tagged Augusta Webster, experience of poetry, Pedagogy, poetry, Victorianism
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“soft sleep shall snare”: caught up in the language of poetry
One of my courses this semester is knee-deep in Victorian poetry. One way that I’ve been trying to dig in with my students as they try and tackle what is often very difficult work, is to focus the actual experience … Continue reading
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Tagged art, D.G. Rossetti, experience of poetry, monsters, Pedagogy, poetry
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Slang, rhetorical situations, and a ridiculous school policy
The inimitable Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing has linked to a BBC news story about a school in Croydon (South London) that has banned students from using slang. Here is the original article and here is Cory’s post. Students … Continue reading
Argument and Deforming Metaphors
I currently teach a great deal about argument (my three sections of English composition are primarily focused on argument, my classrooms are exceptionally contentious). Many of my students think of argument in the expected terms. To them it is necessarily … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, Pedagogy, things I show my students
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MOOC of the Living Dead
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs for short) are emerging into the educational marketplace amidst a great deal of contention. A quick look at an issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education often finds passionate discussions on all sides of the … Continue reading
Religion in the Classroom
As I mentioned previously, I’ve been attending a discussion group focused on teaching literature for some time. Last month it was my turn to choose our reading and I’ve picked Peter Kerry Powers’s excellent article “A Clash of Civilizations: Religious … Continue reading
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Tagged Pedagogy, religion, Romanticism, Victorianism
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Revisiting “The Banking Concept of Education”
One of the first pieces of pedagogical theory I ever read was Paolo Freire’s “The Banking Concept of Education” from his 1970 book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I was a first-year Master’s student preparing to teach my first class, a … Continue reading
Why I teach and study Victorian literature
My students think they know Victorian literature. They have impressions of it as dull, as overly concerned with decorum, as fantasias of the upper-classes in elegantly appointed drawing rooms drinking tea and eating cucumber sandwiches. Few of my students who … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, epistemology, Matthew Arnold, Pedagogy, Realism, Tennyson, theory, Victorianism
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Jekyll, Hyde, and the secret everyone knows
I am teaching The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde this week. My students all know Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Or rather, they know the main conceit: that Hyde is Jekyll. Most of my students have never … Continue reading
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