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ERIC Number: EJ550748
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-8756-7555
New Awareness of the Power of Dialogue: A Hopeful Pedagogy.
Sanzenbacher, Richard
College Teaching, v45 n3 p104-07 Sum 1997
Describes three class activities devised to teach Thoreau's "Walden" at the college level, focusing on the dialogic quality of all language. The approach is based on the idea that every utterance functions in some way as a response to others, and that readers supply meaning in discourse. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation, United States Literature
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Walden