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Revising Ophelia: Rethinking Questions of Gender and Power in School.
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O'Donnell-Allen, Cindy; Smagorinsky, Peter – English Journal, 1999
Looks at the discussion of a small group of girls (ordinarily reticent or diffident in class) in a senior English class as they interpreted the character of Ophelia in Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Discusses the idea that thinking can develop through dialogic (collaborative) rather than dialectic (conflictive) transactions. Notes classroom…
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