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Editors' Introduction

Editors' Introduction Jennifer L. Holberg and Marcy Taylor For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. — George Eliot, Middlemarch We begin with this epigraph from the great nineteenth-century novelM iddle- march because it is a work that George Eliot sets firmly in time, place, and politics. (OK, and Jennifer just finished teaching it recently — and she likes the quote.) In Middlemarch, Eliot’s achievement is, in part, that she provides, as her subtitle promises, a “study of provincial life.” Eliot is interested not merely in the story of Dorothea or Lydgate or Bulstrode individually, but in the ways in which all these lives intersect and shape each other in the larger context of the town of Middlemarch at the time of the first Reform Bill. Place (and all that it makes possible— and impossible) matters. Certainly, no one would deny that place is critical in teaching, but it is something that needs constant attention as we think about the scholarship of teaching. As Mark Long’s thought-provoking commentary asked in issue 5.3, “Where do you teach?” Within Long’s question is embedded a bevy of assumptions about values, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

Editors' Introduction

Holberg, Jennifer L.; Taylor, Marcy
Pedagogy , Volume 6 (2) – Apr 1, 2006
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Duke University Press
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1531-4200
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Jennifer L. Holberg and Marcy Taylor For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. — George Eliot, Middlemarch We begin with this epigraph from the great nineteenth-century novelM iddle- march because it is a work that George Eliot sets firmly in time, place, and politics. (OK, and Jennifer just finished teaching it recently — and she likes the quote.) In Middlemarch, Eliot’s achievement is, in part, that she provides, as her subtitle promises, a “study of provincial life.” Eliot is interested not merely in the story of Dorothea or Lydgate or Bulstrode individually, but in the ways in which all these lives intersect and shape each other in the larger context of the town of Middlemarch at the time of the first Reform Bill. Place (and all that it makes possible— and impossible) matters. Certainly, no one would deny that place is critical in teaching, but it is something that needs constant attention as we think about the scholarship of teaching. As Mark Long’s thought-provoking commentary asked in issue 5.3, “Where do you teach?” Within Long’s question is embedded a bevy of assumptions about values,

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Pedagogy – Duke University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2006

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