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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:33:42 CST
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From:         Irvin Peckham <[e-mail]>
Subject:      Re: tootering: just say no
In-Reply-To:  <no.id>; from "Eric Crump" at Dec 22, 92 10:13 pm
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> Well, Irv, that depends on the writer and the writing assistant, don't
> it? I'm afraid your assumptions about "the tutorial" may be as over-
> generalized as the sometimes overgeneralized assumptions made about
> students. Tutorials >can< foster dependancy, of course, but in an
> ideal world (I WAS talking fantasy, so you have to grant me a bit of
> utopianism) they only foster dependency on colleagues, which is a
> dependency not many of us are likely to outgrow. I like small group
> work pretty well, too, but one-to-one situations need not include the
> same differences in authority and power that seem to permeate
> traditional teacher-student relationships.
The above was from Eric.

Well, Eric, I think a wrote a later brief posting to Marcy refining
and contradicting myself a bit later.  Maybe my later statement
was more tolerable.
Irv

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Irvin Peckham
University of Nebraska at Omaha
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