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- ISSN: 0034-527X
- E-ISSN: 1943-2348
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The Teacher as Dostoevskian Novelist
- Source: Research in the Teaching of English, Volume 31, Issue 3, Oct 1997, p. 367 - 392
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- 01 Oct 1997
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.
© 1997 by the National Council of Teachers of English