Turning the Soul: Teaching Through Conversation in the High School

by Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon

Book Overview

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:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226316769
• ISBN13: 9780226316765
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"