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Rethinking Class Size. A Question and Answer Session with Peter Blatchford about a New Book and Approach to the Class Size Issue
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Blatchford, Peter – Education 3-13, 2021
The issue of class size is a complex and contested topic that has divided opinion for many years. Whilst many teachers believe that smaller class sizes assist in enhancing outcomes, a number of policy influencers, policy makers and researchers argue that it has little influence on success in learning and that decreasing class sizes is not…
Descriptors: Class Size, Teacher Attitudes, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Research
Sourcing the Imagination: Ta-Nehisi Coates's Work as a Praxis of Decolonization (2017)
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Gibson, Stacey A. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2017
A teacher's practice is influenced by personal, institutional, historical, and societal experiences. Teachers are expected to manage how content is delivered in a classroom setting. As well a teacher is managing their own emotional and internal narratives around complex issues such as race, racism, and oppression in the classroom. By exploring the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Course Content, Power Structure, History
"Feeling Lore": The "Problem" of Emotion in the Practice of Teaching
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Wenger, Christy I. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
This paper investigates the current dismissal of feeling from teaching and learning in the college composition classroom. Drawing on the teaching experiences and the concept of lore, it argues that the practices and pedagogies of composition studies continue to produce a division between reason and emotion, denying the body's epistemic potential.…
Descriptors: Scholarship, College Instruction, Learning, Writing Instruction
Chaucer's Rape, Southern Racism, and the Pedagogical Ethics of Authorial Malfeasance
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Pugh, Tison – College English, 2005
The position of the historical writer, Chaucer within classroom environment concerned with the creation and nurturing of an ethical consciousness is presented. The way in which an understanding of the writer from this perspective encourages an enhanced critical engagement with personal ethos and critical analysis for both the student and the…
Descriptors: Criticism, Authors, Classroom Environment, Ethics
Writers as Teachers/Teachers as Writers.
Baumbach, Jonathan, Ed. – 1970
In an attempt to exorcise cliched, hollow, "voiceless prose," 11 diverse novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, and critics who are serious teachers of writing share their insights and feelings about their roles as teachers and about writing. Some of the goals expressed in these essays about the relationship between processes of writing and the…
Descriptors: Authors, Classroom Environment, College Students, Creative Development
Survival Guide to the Schools.
Fox, Elizabeth – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1987
Presents the advice of six experienced writers for novice teachers of writing. Covers the following topics: (1) preparation and organization; (2) planning meetings; (3) rapport with classroom teachers, and students; (4) classroom discipline; (5) chaos vs. spontaneity; (6) presenting assignments and classroom discussions; (7) writing in class; and…
Descriptors: Assignments, Authors, Class Activities, Classroom Environment