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Title: A History of Education in Pennsylvania : Private and Public, Elementary and Higher, From the Time the Swedes Settled on the Delaware to the Present DayPublisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Published for the author, Inquirer Pub. Co.Subjects: Education -- Pennsylvania HistoryNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise
Author: John V. Knapp

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 the incremental growth of students' knowledge and critical skills, the author details how an expert professor teaches complex works to undergraduates with no previous exposure to an author's writings. This process is generalized to describe literary learning in its particulars and the paths students must take from possessing scant knowledge about an author or historical period to their developing mastery. John V. Knapp is professor of English at Northern Illinois University, and Editor of the literary journal,Style.

2008 ISBN: 978-0-87413-026-3 ... Read more