REFLECTIONS ON "THE COLLEGE TEACHING OF ENGLISH."

Autor/in	SHARPLESS, F. PARVIN
Institution	National Council of Teachers of English, Champaign, IL.
Titel	REFLECTIONS ON "THE COLLEGE TEACHING OF ENGLISH."
Quelle	(1967), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Cultural Enrichment; Curriculum Development; English; English Curriculum; English Instruction; Higher Education; Humanities; Instructional Improvement; Literary Discrimination; Literature; Program Improvement; Teacher Improvement; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; English language; Englisch; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Unterrichtsqualität; Literatur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	THE DISCUSSION IN THIS EXTENSIVE CRITICAL REVIEW OF "THE COLLEGE TEACHING OF ENGLISH" (NCTE CURRICULUM SERIES, 1965) INCLUDES NOT ONLY AN APPRAISAL OF THE BOOK BUT ALSO A CRITICISM OF TEACHERS AND SCHOLARS WHO FAIL TO CONSIDER THE THEORETICAL ORIENTATION OF THEIR PROFESSION. THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THE PURPOSE OF TEACHING, FOR EXAMPLE, ARE VIEWED DIFFERENTLY BY THE "TRADITIONALIST," THE "LIBERAL," OR THE "SNOPESIAN CAREERIST." CATEGORIES SUCH AS THESE FOCUS ATTENTION ON THE PREMISES AND ASSUMPTIONS BEHIND JUDGMENTS MADE BY TEACHERS AND CRITICS OF LITERATURE WHICH MUST BE UNDERSTOOD AND CONSIDERED IN ANY PROGRAM OF REFORM. THIS IS WHY THE VOLUME OF PREDOMINANTLY TRADITIONALIST ESSAYS ON THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH IS DISAPPOINTING, ESPECIALLY IN THE ABSENCE OF A CHAPTER DEVOTED TO STUDENTS. MOST OF THE AUTHORS INCLUDED FAIL TO CONSIDER THE BASIC QUESTIONS OF WHAT THE STUDY OF LITERATURE IS, WHAT IT CAN ACCOMPLISH, AND HOW THESE GOALS MAY BE BEST REALIZED. WAYNE C. BOOTH'S DISCUSSION OF "THE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM" AND MURRAY KRIEGER'S "THE DISCIPLINE OF LITERARY CRITICISM" ARE NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS. ROGER MCCUTCHEON'S VIEWS, HOWEVER, REPRESENT THE OLD TRADITIONALIST SCHOOL WHICH ADVOCATES OFTEN TEDIOUS BIBLIOGRAPHIC WORK AND ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE. THIS ARTICLE APPEARED IN "COLLEGE ENGLISH," VOLUME 29, NUMBER 1, OCTOBER 1967, PAGES 32-39. (BN)
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Update	2004/1/01