Getting ready for "The Modernist Party as Pedagogy": A critique
Kate McLoughlin's recent JML article, “The Modernist Party as Pedagogy,” introduces a role-playing model, a simulated modernist party, to teach modernist literature. We respond to McLoughlin's modernist party by evaluating our experience of teaching a variation of it, considering the broad...
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| description | Kate McLoughlin's recent JML article, “The Modernist Party as Pedagogy,” introduces a role-playing model, a simulated modernist party, to teach modernist literature. We respond to McLoughlin's modernist party by evaluating our experience of teaching a variation of it, considering the broader value of role-play for modernist pedagogy. Role-play requires performance and risk-taking, acts that can generate critical and creative ideas that may later be used in essay writing. This innovative exercise harnesses the spontaneity inherent in oral conversation. The main drawback is the possibility of students internalizing reductive impressions of modernist figures and ideas. These problems may be circumvented with adequate preparation and contextual class discussion. Playfulness and performativity can then lead to critical, historical, and biographical thinking. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b14b66fd-5248-40ad-b7be-b83880d3557d2022-03-27T04:02:54ZGetting ready for "The Modernist Party as Pedagogy": A critiqueJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b14b66fd-5248-40ad-b7be-b83880d3557dEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordIndiana University Press2018O'Brien, NGallego Larrarte, BKate McLoughlin's recent JML article, “The Modernist Party as Pedagogy,” introduces a role-playing model, a simulated modernist party, to teach modernist literature. We respond to McLoughlin's modernist party by evaluating our experience of teaching a variation of it, considering the broader value of role-play for modernist pedagogy. Role-play requires performance and risk-taking, acts that can generate critical and creative ideas that may later be used in essay writing. This innovative exercise harnesses the spontaneity inherent in oral conversation. The main drawback is the possibility of students internalizing reductive impressions of modernist figures and ideas. These problems may be circumvented with adequate preparation and contextual class discussion. Playfulness and performativity can then lead to critical, historical, and biographical thinking. |
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