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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:03:59 -0500
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- Subject: Re: Standardizing Composition Classes
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- David: I guess I want to ask how you make it possible for your TAs and the
- undergraduates to see what they are doing as a collaborative process in
- which they work together in and out of the classroom to the same ends?
- You almost would have to get the tas to stop thinking they were teachers and
- get the freshmen to stop thinking they were students and create a non=
- hierarchical situation (like a quality control team in a corp, which must
- fight like crazy to keep management from dominating). Put another way,
- the problem is how to organize a hierarchical situation non-hierarchically
- and allow the group to establish its own hierarchies, based on its own
- definitions of functions and objectives.
- The fresh;men do work together, in oblique and semi-furtive ways, in and
- out of the classroom; they establish rules governing participation, they
- define aberrant behavior and punish it, they probably even establish norms
- for achievement. Can we find and make explicit those rules and ours?
- Myles
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