Pedagogy Jan 2011

You Don't Know Jack

Bruce Avery

Abstract

Many students in American universities are unable to absorb information from a Shakespeare text in the lecture-discussion format. Consumption of electronic media has both absorbed increasing amounts of their time and encouraged passive modes of learning. My response is to seek a pedagogy that produces, on the one hand, in active interpreters of complex language, and, on the other, a participatory, collegial classroom through a pedagogy fusing traditional modes of literary criticism with active modes of learning.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2011-01-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-2010-020
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