Ch. 9: "Only Connect": Doing Dickens, Cultural Studies, and Anti-Disciplinarity in the University Literature Classroom
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Description
This chapter appears in the book, Writing against the Curriculum: Anti-Disciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom. Edited by Randi Gray Kristensen and Ryan M. Claycomb.
Chapter abstract: Any professor or instructor committed to a student-centered critical pedagogy in the university literature classroom practices a kind of connection between the subjects they teach and their students' actual lives that Forester's quote above embodies. One of the prominent strategies of progressive critical educators relies on the premise that "one secret to good teaching is the ability to discover fresh dimensions in celebrated material," and thus make schooling relevant to students as a vital force in their own contemporary worlds.
ISBN
9798216329053
Publication Date
2009
Publisher
Lexington Books, part of Bloomsbury Publishing
City
London
Keywords
Charles Dickens, Student centered learning, Anti-disciplinarity, Pedagogy
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | Educational Methods | Literature in English, British Isles | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Recommended Citation
Lorentzen, Eric G., "Ch. 9: "Only Connect": Doing Dickens, Cultural Studies, and Anti-Disciplinarity in the University Literature Classroom" (2009). English & Linguistics Books. 15.
https://scholar.umw.edu/elc_books/15