Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise

by John V. Knapp

Although teaching is perhaps the central public activity of most university English professors, there is surprisingly little research in the specifics of expert professorial practice. Many previous studies describe, recipe-like, the end products of successful teaching, while others conflate expertise in this subject matter with pedagogical expertise. This study focuses on the moves the expert professor makes in a semester-long process of literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161149091X
• ISBN13: 9781611490916
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 310 Pages