The tightrope of desire: Lessons from Oscar Browning.
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Title
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The tightrope of desire: Lessons from Oscar Browning.
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Identifier
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AAI3008849
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identifier
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3008849
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Creator
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McBeth, Mark Neal.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Sondra Perl
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Date
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2001
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Education, History of | Language, Rhetoric and Composition
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Abstract
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Oscar Browning's educational life succinctly (both as student and tutor) exemplifies nineteenth-century public school life and, in addition, offers a rich narrative in which to discuss and analyze the act of teaching, especially the complex dynamics of student-teacher relationships. His learning narrative and subsequent teaching experience illustrate an aspect of Victorian educational contexts and ideals as well as burgeoning practices of progressive pedagogy. From his work with the elite pupils of Eton and King's College to his later directorship of Cambridge's teacher training college for working-class men, Browning's approach to tutoring and classroom practice inform and enrich the discourse about nineteenth-century education. His alternative viewpoints, eccentric personality, and flamboyant behavior further complicate (and enliven) pedagogical issues that touch upon desire in the classroom. His now-remote teaching life offers a context in which to discuss tutor-pupil (teacher-student) relationships and allows educators to revisit and revise issues regarding learning pleasures. By reviewing Oscar Browning's educational narrative along the blurry contours of his desire, this dissertation uncovers a fertile place to discuss issues of pedagogy. It reveals a teaching and learning that for both students and teachers engenders pleasure.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
