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The Dickensian Image of the School Teacher by Terrence Whaley - 1989Dickens creates mythic characters, representations so large,
familiar, and memorable as to alter the way we perceive our
institutions and cultural experience. Because of the continuous
popularity of his novels and the peculiar strength of his portrayal of
teachers and teaching, schooling is one such institution shaped in our
imaginations by the influence of his work. I shall examine this
portrayal in order to account for the nature and strength of its
influence, a negative one, as I will show, which has armed the
detractors of teachers and teaching in our society with some of their
most damaging images and notions about schooling. To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below: This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 88, No. 1. |
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- Terrence Whaley
Lewis & Clark College E-mail Author TERRENCE WHALEY is an adjunct professor in Lewis & Clark College's graduate core program and a teacher of secondary English in the Seattle Public Schools.
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