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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213829603321

Autore

Black Laurel Johnson <1957->

Titolo

Between talk and teaching : reconsidering the writing conference / / Laurel Johnson Black

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

0-87421-328-2

0-585-09903-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Disciplina

808/.042/07

808.04207

Soggetti

Tutors and tutoring

Teacher-student relationships

Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher)

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-172).

Nota di contenuto

Power and talk -- Gender and conferencing -- Cross-cultural conferencing -- The affective dimension -- Possibilities works cited.

Sommario/riassunto

The teacher-student conference is standard in the repertoire of teachers at all levels. Because it's a one-to-one encounter, teachers work hard to make it comfortable; but because it's a pedagogical moment, they hope that learning occurs in the encounter, too. The literature in this area often suggests that a conference is a conversation, but this doesn't account for a teacher's need to use it pedagogically. Laurel Johnson Black's new book explores the conflicting meanings and relations embedded in conferencing and offers a new theoretical understanding of the conference along with pra