03179pam a2200445 a 4500 4362828 BJBSDDR 20251113133651.0 ta 900712s1991 ilu b 001 0 eng 90043533 9780226316765 (pbk.) 0226316769 (pbk.) 4362828 DLC DLC DLC eng eng LB 1027 H292t 1991 373.13/7 Haroutunian-Gordon, Sophie 45801 Turning the soul : teaching through conversation in the high school / Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1991. x, 213 pages ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index. Is our nation's educational system faltering in part because it strives to teach students predetermined "right" answers to questions? In Turning the Soul, Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon offers and alternative to methods advocated by conventional educational practice. By guiding the reader back and forth between two high school classes discussing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, she gracefully introduces the alternative approach to education: interpretive discussion. One class, located in a private, racially integrated urban school, has had many conversations about the meaning of books. The second group, less advantaged students in a largely black urban school, has not. The reader watches as students in each group begin to draw upon experiences in their personal lives to speculate about events in the play. The students assist one another with the interpretation of complex passages, pose queries that help sustain the conversation, and struggle to "get Shakespeare right." Though the teachers suffer moments of intense frustration, they are rewarded by seeing their students learn to engage in meaningful exchange. Because Turning the Soul draws on actual classroom conversations, it presents the range of difficulties that one encounters in interpretive discussion. The book describes the assumptions about learning that the use of such discussion in the classroom presupposes, and it offers a theoretical perspective from which to view the changes in both students and teachers. Teaching. Enseñanza 6051 Discussion Study and teaching. Discusión Estudio y enseñanza 45982 Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0608/90043533-d.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0608/90043533-t.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0609/90043533-b.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg lcc BK rmza 125780 125780 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-11-06 0 LB 1027 H292t 1991 00000183750 2025-11-06 17:02:00 1 2025-11-06 BK