| To the Lighthouse and Back: Writings on Teaching and Living Contributor(s): Steinberg, Shirley R. (Editor), Kincheloe, Joe L. (Editor), Doll, Mary Aswell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820427772 ISBN-13: 9780820427775 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Education | Adult & Continuing Education - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities |
| Dewey: 428.007 |
| LCCN: 95007427 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The book's basic thesis is that learning, like living, is comedic. Comedy instructs through metaphor - seeing likeness between opposites - and in reading everything as text. The book thereby revisions education as Comedy. It suggests that the subjects of all assignments must connect with the subjective reader. Accordingly, it includes student writings, personal memoirs, dreams, poems, myths, journals, and artwork - as well as critiques of mainstream writing and teaching. From classwork with Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, assignments are offered to prod students into awareness of their deeper selves, their others, nature, and the divine. |