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Cheap Teaching at High Prices: Jerome Klinkowitz's Literature Pedagogy

Cheap Teaching at High Prices: Jerome Klinkowitz's Literature Pedagogy Reviews Cheap Teaching at High Prices: Jerome Klinkowitz’s Literature Pedagogy You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught: Learning and Relearning Literature.By Jerome Klinkowitz. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. Gregory Eiselein As a teacher who longs for good work on the pedagogy of literature, I did not expect to be so deeply disappointed with Jerome Klinkowitz’s memoir and pedagogical polemic, You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught. The opening pages promise a “revolutionary” approach to teaching literature, one built on “a bedrock of practicality” (2). I figured I would love this book. I was ready to hear about his life in school, his criticism of traditional pedagogies (chap. 1), his explanation of the failure of previous reform efforts (chap. 2), and, in particular, his proposed remedy (chap. 3). Sadly, the story and its narrator are annoying, and the pedagogy is hardly revolutionary. Some college lit fac- ulty in pursuit of better teaching practices may forgive or overlook the self- congratulatory and self-justifying narrative. Perhaps the personal memoir form tends to seduce writers into rhetorical miscalculation? The proposed pedagogy, a personal variation on the old-fashioned easy-teacher method, is more difficult to excuse. Although he has no persuasive evidence that this approach enhances http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

Cheap Teaching at High Prices: Jerome Klinkowitz's Literature Pedagogy

Eiselein, Gregory
Pedagogy , Volume 3 (1) – Jan 1, 2003
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Reviews Cheap Teaching at High Prices: Jerome Klinkowitz’s Literature Pedagogy You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught: Learning and Relearning Literature.By Jerome Klinkowitz. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. Gregory Eiselein As a teacher who longs for good work on the pedagogy of literature, I did not expect to be so deeply disappointed with Jerome Klinkowitz’s memoir and pedagogical polemic, You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught. The opening pages promise a “revolutionary” approach to teaching literature, one built on “a bedrock of practicality” (2). I figured I would love this book. I was ready to hear about his life in school, his criticism of traditional pedagogies (chap. 1), his explanation of the failure of previous reform efforts (chap. 2), and, in particular, his proposed remedy (chap. 3). Sadly, the story and its narrator are annoying, and the pedagogy is hardly revolutionary. Some college lit fac- ulty in pursuit of better teaching practices may forgive or overlook the self- congratulatory and self-justifying narrative. Perhaps the personal memoir form tends to seduce writers into rhetorical miscalculation? The proposed pedagogy, a personal variation on the old-fashioned easy-teacher method, is more difficult to excuse. Although he has no persuasive evidence that this approach enhances

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Pedagogy – Duke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2003

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