Voicing Ourselves: Whose Words We Use When We Talk about Books

Christian Knoeller

mars 1998 · State University of New York Press

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In a public high school classroom in the San Francisco Bay area, a group of twelfth graders have decided themselves to enroll for Advanced-Placement English. Faced with unprecedented diversity for such a class in terms of academic and ethnic backgrounds, veteran teacher Joan Cone dared to trust her students to lead their own discussions of a variety of provocative authors including Baldwin, Didion, Malcolm X, and Woolf. Voicing Ourselves examines a year's worth of such sessions, revealing how a teacher's role is transformed, and, moreover, offering an important component in any teacher's repertoire of instructional strategies: student-led discussion. Above all, the book shows the startling success of students licensed to engage one another directly in talk about books, revealing the richly social tapestry of such conversations.

À propos de l'auteur

Christian Knoeller is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He has written two books, Office Communication, a textbook, and Song in Brown Bear Country, a book of poems.