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Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise
John V. Knapp
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Description for Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise
hardcover. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 631.
Although teaching is perhaps the central public activity of most university English professors, there is surprisingly little research in the specifics of expert professorial practice. Many previous studies describe, recipe-like, the end products of successful teaching, while others conflate expertise in this subject matter with pedagogical expertise. This study focuses on the moves the expert professor makes in a semester-long process of literary teaching_of a literature far removed in time and space from most undergraduates' experience_and discusses a day-to-day case study of an advanced undergraduate literature course in the writings of John Milton. By employing a 'situated learning' model explaining ... Read more
Although teaching is perhaps the central public activity of most university English professors, there is surprisingly little research in the specifics of expert professorial practice. Many previous studies describe, recipe-like, the end products of successful teaching, while others conflate expertise in this subject matter with pedagogical expertise. This study focuses on the moves the expert professor makes in a semester-long process of literary teaching_of a literature far removed in time and space from most undergraduates' experience_and discusses a day-to-day case study of an advanced undergraduate literature course in the writings of John Milton. By employing a 'situated learning' model explaining ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611490916
SKU
V9781611490916
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About John V. Knapp
John V. Knapp is professor of English at Northern Illinois University.
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