Reading Your Self

A Student's Guide to Rethinking English Studies

David S. Miall

A book about learning in English studies, written primarily for students (manuscript nearly completed in first draft).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction. The politics of the classroom. Go this chapter (available in full)

Part 1. Literary Response and Learning

1. Texts, teachers, readers

2. The process of literary response: an example and some theory. Extract from opening of chapter

3. Experimenting with texts: I. Non-technical methods: Rewriting a Text; Structure Plans; Ideas and Contrasts / Extract from opening of chapter

4. Experimenting with texts: II. Technical approaches: Poetic Diction; Metre; Narrative; Other Methods

Part 2. A New Context for Learning

5. Anticipating: Anticipating English Studies; Learning: assembly or progression? Making a learning agreement; Resources

6. Learning in the classroom: Defining your aims; Negotiating aims and methods; Working in groups; Project work in English; Your own map of literary studies. Extract from opening of chapter

7. Evaluating: Formative evaluation; Summative evaluation; Appraising staff, the institution; Evaluating personal learning

8. Computers in English Studies: Writing; Databases; Text Analysis; Internet resources; On the Horizon: hypertext, expert systems

Part 3. The Process of Response: The position of literature; the indeterminacy of literature; a model of literary response; reading the self; implications for learning

Part 4. Teacher's Guide Redesigning the classroom; Phasing in group work and projects

Appendices

Example diagrams, projects, student response protocols, evaluations

Computer software, guides, bibliographies, and other resources

References and Index


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